Items related to Delhi: Im Rausch des Geldes

Delhi: Im Rausch des Geldes - Softcover

Book 181 of 450: suhrkamp taschenbuch
 
9783518466445: Delhi: Im Rausch des Geldes

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 angestohas a call to the local Lamborghini dealer - he can't sleep anymore since the new rich have 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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.