{"product_id":"beautiful-and-the-damned-a-portrait-of-the-new-india","title":"Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBeautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSiddhartha Deb\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780865478626\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e56609th\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e272\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of the Year 2011 Title\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSiddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after leaving home, he returned as an undercover reporter for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, working at a call center in Delhi in 2004, a time when globalization was fast proceeding and Thomas L. Friedman declared the world flat. Deb's experience interviewing the call-center staff led him to undertake this book and travel throughout the subcontinent. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and the Damned \u003c\/i\u003eexamines India's many contradictions through various individual and extraordinary perspectives. With lyrical and commanding prose, Deb introduces the reader to an unforgettable group of Indians, including a Gatsby-like mogul in Delhi whose hobby is producing big-budget gangster films that no one sees; a wiry, dusty farmer named Gopeti whose village is plagued by suicides and was the epicenter of a riot; and a sad-eyed waitress named Esther who has set aside her dual degrees in biochemistry and botany to serve Coca-Cola to arms dealers at an upscale hotel called Shangri La. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike no other writer, Deb humanizes the post-globalization experience--its advantages, failures, and absurdities. India is a country where you take a nap and someone has stolen your job, where you buy a BMW but still have to idle for cows crossing your path. A personal, narrative work of journalism and cultural analysis in the same vein as Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's \u003ci\u003eRandom Family \u003c\/i\u003eand V. S. Naipaul's India series, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and the Damned \u003c\/i\u003eis an important and incisive new work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and the Damned \u003c\/i\u003eis a Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India | Siddhartha Deb | Hardcover | 9780865478626 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks D 1760101","offer_id":49199066284184,"sku":"1760101","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81TFgx2v58L.jpg?v=1780694046","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/beautiful-and-the-damned-a-portrait-of-the-new-india","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}