A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
Language: English
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2012
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- Title
- A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
- Author
- Sethi, Aman
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393088901
- ISBN 13
- 9780393088908
- Item weight
- 14 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5x0x8
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Review
Funny, poignant, and deeply moving, A Free Man is an extraordinary vignette into an extraordinary life. --Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies"
A Free Man is a brilliant capturing of the language and bloodstream of a city. Aman Sethi has made a book that s remarkable in its voice and evocation. --Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient"
A Free Man is stunning. It reminds me of that Victorian masterpiece of investigative journalism, Henry Mayhew s London Labour and London Poor. Aman Sethi gets modern India better than any other journalist I know. Not only is he a remarkable reporter and storyteller, but he possesses a novelist s ear for language, sense of the absurd, and perfect pitch. I m bowled over, totally. --Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind and Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius"
A Free Man is a beautiful work of journalism, sympathetic and graceful. The author follows, and progressively befriends, a homeless day laborer in Delhi. What starts as classic ethnography becomes a gripping story, and ends as a homage to a lost friend. --Esther Duflo, author of Poor Economics and MacArthur Fellow"
With A Free Man, Aman Sethi comes to the forefront of an extraordinary new generation of Indian nonfiction writers. His compassion and humor is matched by a fierce determination to tell the stories of ordinary Indians, too often forgotten in the scramble for the spoils of the economic boom. --Hari Kunzru, author of Gods Without Men"
Funny and disturbing. --Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things"
A Free Man makes no promise of a happy ending. Perhaps no book about contemporary Indian society can. But it delivers more. It takes readers on a journey they might otherwise not go on. And that the destination is neither secret nor hidden shows that sometimes what matters isn t what s beyond our reach. It s what s before our eyes. --Sonia Faleiro"
A Free Man is a beautiful work of journalism, sympathetic and graceful. The author follows, and progressively befriends, a homeless day laborer in Delhi. What starts as classic ethnography becomes a gripping story, and ends as a homage to a lost friend. --Esther Duflo, author of Poor Economics and MacArthur Fellow
Funny and disturbing.--Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things
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