A major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style with an energetically modern worldscape.[...]
Winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2010. The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Tokyo Cancelled.[...]
An extraordinary portrait of the fastest-growing city in the world and the rise of a new global elite
Since the opening up of India s economy in 1991, wealth has poured into the country, and especially into Delhi. "Capital "bears witness to the astonishing metamorphosis of India s capital city, [...]
When thirteen passengers are stranded together at an airport, they form a huddle and tell one another stories about lives in transit that grow into an epic cycle about the hopes, dreams, and disappointments that connect people everywhere. Reader's Guide available. Original. 25,000 first printing.[...]
Driving along the dusty, congested roads of central Delhi gives no sense of the verdant landscape behind the high walls that line them: it is only when you ascend, for instance, to the top of the Taj Hotel, that you can look down and see that these roads are but arid strips through an enormous expan[...]
"A terrific portrait of Delhi right now." (Salman Rushdie). "An astonishing tour de force by a major writer at the peak of his powers." (William Dalrymple). When Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi at the turn of the twenty-first century, he had no intention of staying for long, but the city beguiled him[...]
In "Capital," Commonwealth Prize-winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: the expansion of the global elite. "Capital" is an intimate portrait of the city of Delhi which bears witness to the extraordinary transmogrification of India's capital. But it also offers a g[...]