Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330444125 Author 作者 Pankaj Mishra Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 320页 Publisher 出版社 Picador India; Newedition Publication Date 出版日期 2007年1月1日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 290 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra traveled through thesmall towns of India and found they had shed their sleepy,half-apologetic air; brash and ostentatious, kitschy and clamorous,here was an India in transition. A convent-educated young womanfrom Jhansi aspiring to be a beauty queen; a rich young man inGujarat speaking casually of murdering Muslims; Naxalites in Bihartrying to foment revolution; small shopkeepers planning a vacationin London - Mishra captured, with irony and humor, a people rushingheadlong to their tryst with modernity. '"Butter Chicken inLudhiana" is a marvelous t
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