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Item Details
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BUTTER CHICKEN IN LUDHIANA
TRAVELS IN SMALL TOWN INDIA |
| By: |
Pankaj Mishra |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0330444123 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780330444125 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
2 January, 2007 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
Acutely observed and rendered with insight and biting wit, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana is a contemporary classic |
| Synopsis: |
A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra traveled through the small towns of India and found they had shed their sleepy, half-apologetic air; brash and ostentatious, kitschy and clamorous, here was an India in transition. A convent-educated young woman from Jhansi aspiring to be a beauty queen; a rich young man in Gujarat speaking casually of murdering Muslims; Naxalites in Bihar trying to foment revolution; small shopkeepers planning a vacation in London - Mishra captured, with irony and humor, a people rushing headlong to their tryst with modernity. '"Butter Chicken in Ludhiana" is a marvelous travel book about small-town India, where the village and the city, the folk and the kitsch, and the comic and the violent threaten to converge' - Ashis Nandy. 'A love-letter to the real republic. No other book defines as clearly, and with such troubled irony, our last decade of change' - Amitava Kumar. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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