Delhi: Im Rausch des Geldes - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3518424572 ISBN 13: 9783518424575

Synopsis

In December 2000, Rana Dasgupta moves to Delhi because there lives the woman he loves - and ends up in a juggernaut that could have sprung directly from the imagination of Zola, Brecht or Scorsese. The economic opening of India in 1991 has unleashed forces that have since swept away over the city and its inhabitants with the violence of a natural disaster: capitalist robber barons aggressively stake their claims, cash is carted through the streets by truck, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was once the liberalization of the Landes angesto, call the local Lamborghini dealer. He can't sleep anymore since the Nouveaux Riches run out their luxury bodies in front of his residence. With the empathy and language violence of a great narrator, Dasgupta signs the world behind the facades of seemingly endlessly upward growth rates. He meets billionaires and slum dwellers, drug dealers and metal traders, social workers and gurus, and finds that in the home of his ancestors today one thing rules above all: the money. An impressive portrait of a metropolis in the noise that at the same time gives a foretaste of what the city of the future could look like.

Edition details

• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3518424572
• ISBN 13: 9783518424575
• Binding: Hardcover