Bøger af Suketu Mehta

Un retrato de Bombay feroz, detallista, visceral e inteligente. Una lectura que es como embarcarse en un viaje en el que se conoce a fondo la ciudad de la India, sus habitantes y su historia. Ciudad total lleva a cabo uno de los retratos de la ciudad de Bombay más fabulosos y ambiciosos que se han escrito hasta la fecha. Un retrato que, además de dar cuenta de la vida de una ciudad, narra la historia de un país, así como su discurrir político y social. Suketu Mehta nació en Bombay y por tanto nos ofrece la visión de un nativo, es decir, una visión cercana y real que aporta a su relato un nivel inusual de introspección, detalle e intimismo. Se acerca a la ciudad desde ángulos insospechados. Nos lleva al mundo criminal, donde se enfrentan gánsteres musulmanes e hindúes, ambos grupos interesados en controlar la ciudad. Nos muestra las nuevas fuerzas que están haciendo prosperar a la India, como, por ejemplo, el imperio cinematográfico de Bollywood. Y, entre muchos otros ejemplos, nos revela las vidas de gentes de provincias que han visto desfallecer sus sueños de prosperar en la ciudad. Ciudad total fue finalista del premio Pulitzer en 2005. Su mérito se construye en la multitud de historias que contiene y que convierten este libro en un texto victoriano, por su mimo en los detalles, por su gran ambición y excelente resultado. Esta novela pertenece al #FondoDeEditor de Literatura Random House «Como el Londres de Dickens, el París de Proust o la Barcelona de Juan Marsé, Bombay es un escenario que parece inventado para el lucimiento y la capacidad de observación de Suketu Mehta, un autor que se siente a sus anchas en el caos de una ciudad tan inmensa como este libro.» -Claudio López Lamadrid ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider's view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.

A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider's view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks.As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.

An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing on his family's own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting around the world, Suketu Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny.

A 2019 NPR Staff PickA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? In This Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu Mehta attacks the issue head-on. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the world, Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. As he explains, the West is being destroyed not by immigrants but by the fear of immigrants. Mehta juxtaposes the phony narratives of populist ideologues with the ordinary heroism of laborers, nannies, and others, from Dubai to Queens, and explains why more people are on the move today than ever before. As civil strife and climate change reshape large parts of the planet, it is little surprise that borders have become so porous. But Mehta also stresses the destructive legacies of colonialism and global inequality on large swaths of the world: When todayΓÇÖs immigrants are asked, ΓÇ£Why are you here?ΓÇ¥ they can justly respond, ΓÇ£We are here because you were there.ΓÇ¥ And now that they are here, as Mehta demonstrates, immigrants bring great benefits, enabling countries and communities to flourish. Impassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories and characters, This Land Is Our Land is a timely and necessary intervention, and a literary polemic of the highest order.

A wonderfully evocative, superbly written and highly acclaimed account of the world's first megalopolis.