Recensione:
A Globe and Mail Best Book
“Deb’s work has been compared to Naipaul’s, but his voice is unique, more honest, a gaze refreshingly different. . . . As subtle and sensitive as it is shocking and significant, you will not read a better book on the ‘human’ face of globalization this year.”
—The Globe and Mail
“[Deb] has a particularly fine eye for a culture and landscape in transit from what he calls a ‘high-context’ India of caste, regional and linguistic divisions to the ‘low-context’ promise of the English-speaking, globalized, technocratic elite.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“In The Beautiful and the Damned, Siddartha Deb has taken up [V.S.] Naipaul’s mantle.”
—The Telegraph (UK)
“Startlingly intelligent.”
—The Guardian (UK)
L'autore:
SIDDHARTHA DEB was born in in Northeast India in 1970. He was educated in India and at Columbia University. His first novel was the semi-autobiographical The Point of Return, set in a hill-station that closely resembles Shillong in India's Northeast. His second novel, Surface, also set in Northeast India, is about a disillusioned Sikh journalist. He has contributed to the Boston Globe, the Guardian, The Nation, the New Statesman, Harper's, the London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement. He currently teaches at The New School in New York.
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