Siddhartha Deb
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Language
English
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Description
"Delhi, the near future: a former journalist goes in search of answers after she finds herself stripped of identity and citizenship and thrust into a vast conspiracy involving secret detention centers, government sanctioned murders, online rage, nationalist violence, and a figure of shifting identifies known as the "New Delhi Monkey Man." Bhopal, 1984: an assassin hunts a whistleblower through a central Indian city that will shortly be the site of...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Amrit is a reporter for the Sentinel, dispatched to 'the region' - an unnamed and remote part of India - on the vaguest of assignments. Initially reluctant, and aware for a while that his career is going nowhere, Amrit has thought of turning the situation to his advantage by the time he departs: he will write a story for a foreign magazine where he has a vague contact and an even vaguer chance of a job." "A mysterious room in the office archives...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the remote northeastern hills of India, the story revolves around the father-son relationship of a willful, curious boy, Babu, and Doctor Dam, an enigmatic product of British colonial rule and Nehruvian nationalism. Told in reverse chronological order, the novel examines an India where the ideals that brought freedom from colonial rule are beginning to crack under the pressure of new rebellions and conflicts.
For Dr. Dam and Babu this has...