Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, And Beyond - Hardcover

Mishra, Pankaj

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374173214 ISBN 13: 9780374173210

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006

Synopsis

A cultural and political analysis of the paradoxical benefits and consequences of globalization considers both the pressures and temptations of western-style modernity and prosperity on the rest of the world, citing examples in such regions as Allahabad, Kashmir, and Tibet. By the author of An End to Suffering.

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Review:

'Subtle, vivid and inexhaustibly thought-provoking book.' -- Guardian Book of the Week

'The narrative is interspersed with sophisticated cultural commentary that outstrips with ease that of so-called Western experts.' -- Conde Nast Traveller

'a compelling blend of memoir, narrative history, politics. religion and philosophy...Thoughtful, intelligent and rigorous, this is a deep, insightful study' -- Observer

‘a gritty view of religious tensions.’ -- FT magazine

‘...a very good and original book.’ -- The Economist

About the Author:

PANKAJ MISHRA was born in north India in 1969. He is the author of An End to Suffering and The Romantics (which won the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction) and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0374173214
• ISBN 13: 9780374173210
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 323