Rana D Dasgupta

Capital: The Eruption of Delhi

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 glimp...

Capital: The Eruption of Delhi

Delhi (Italian Edition)

“Uno strepitoso ritratto dell’India di oggi." (Salman Rushdie)La trasformazione di Delhi in una metropoli del ventunesimo secolo è una storia entusiasmante, a tratti terrificante.Il boom successivo all’apertura dell’economia indiana ha tuffato la città in un tumulto di distruzione e creazione: barac...

Capital: A Portrait Of Delhi In The Twenty-First Century

At the turn of the twenty-first century, acclaimed novelist Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi with a single suitcase. He had no intention of staying for long. But the city beguiled him—he “fell in love and in hate with it”—and fourteen years later, Delhi is still his home.Fourteen years of breakneck ch...

Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015 '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 It is said of Indian cities that Calcutta, the former British capital, owned the nineteenth century, Bombay, ...

Solo

Solo is a devastating and rapturous novel about the life and daydreams of Ulrich, a reclusive one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria.Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine. A group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking the language of a society that had been...

Solo

The highly anticipated new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Tokyo Cancelled. Solo recounts the life and daydreams of a reclusive one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria. Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of parrots...

Solo

“Solo is a wonder—an exploration of memory, a window on a country and region mysterious to the West even in the twentieth century, a keen study of human love and failure.”—Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian With imaginative audacity and lyrical brilliance, Rana Dasgupta paints a portrait of ...

Rana Dasgupta

Rana Dasgupta (born 5 November 1971 in Canterbury, England) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He grew up in Cambridge, England, and studied at...