AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India. with an Introduction by Bill and Melinda Gates

VIKRAM SETH

Sunil Gangopadhyay

KIRAN DESAI

AMIT CHAUDHURI

Aman Sethi

Jaspreet Singh

Nikita, Lalwani

Siddhartha, Deb

Salman, Rushdie

Nalini Jones

Vintage Books USA

Siddhartha 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 The Guardian, 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. The Beautiful and the Damned examines 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. Like 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. Available for the first time with the controversial and previously unpublished first chapter, The Beautiful and the Damned is as important and incisive today as it was when it was first published.

The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Point of Return

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Pan/Macmillan

Set in the north-eastern hills of India, this is the moving story of a father and a son. Dr. Dam and Babu have lived for years as strangers in the same home, both puzzled and resentful. But as his father weakens and wearies of life, Babu is drawn closer to him. Before long he finds himself embarking on a great journey, an odyssey through the memories of his father, his family and his country.

The Point of Return

A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleSiddhartha 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 The Guardian, 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. The Beautiful and the Damned examines 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. Like 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 Random Family and V. S. Naipaul's India series, The Beautiful and the Damned is an important and incisive new work.The Beautiful and the Damned is a Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

VIKING

James Wood's "Apologia Pro Vita Sua"; Andrew Bujalski on the real truth of independent filmmaking; Mark Greif's "Radiohead, Or the Philosophy of Pop"; Benjamin Kunkel's "Or Things I Did Not Do or Say"; Marco Roth's "Torture and Parenting"; Elif Batuman on Franco Moretti; plus Walter Benn Michaels on diversity and the first of the new batch of stories from Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

n+1, Number Three: Reality Principle

Marco Roth

Mark Greif

Benjamin Kunkel

Walter Benn Michaels

Elif Batuman

Meghan Falvey

J.D. Daniels

Michael T. Klare

James Wood

Pankaj, Mishra

Andrew Bujals

François Cusset

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Emily Votruba

n+1 Research

Featuring analysis of MFA vs. NYC literary cultures, pro-life vs. animal rights politics, the failure of California, the politics of white victimization, American elitism, and how an Indian management guru made his money. Also featuring fiction by Mathias Enard and Sheila Heti and four responses to Jonathan Franzen's Freedom.

n+1 Issue 10: Self-Improvement

NIKIL SAVAL

Keith Gessen

Sheila Heti

Mathias Énard

Kristen Dombek

Daniel Albert

Richard Beck

Elizabeth Gumport

Bruce Robbins

n+1 Foundation

<p>The definitive history of Pitchfork, a report from the Gathering of the Juggalos, Kristin Dombek (author of "The Two Cultures of Life" from Issue 10) on the surprising sweetness of The Book of Mormon, and an excerpt from Helen DeWitt's new novel, Lightning Rods. Plus Mark Greif on Stanley Cavell and Carla Blumenkranz on Gordon Lish and new fiction, poetry, and reviews.</p>

n+1 Issue 12: Conversion Experience

Carla Blumenkranz

Kristin Dombek

ChaD Harbach

Lawrence Jackson

Helen DeWitt

Kent Russell

Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Alexander Borinsky

Yitzhak Laor

The Light at the End of the World

Soho Press

Context

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