Twilight Prisoners
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-80429-217-4 (ISBN)
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Here is an absorbing--and disturbing--account of India's transformation into a religious fundamentalist, brutally unequal dystopia, from a novelist described by Pankaj Mishra as "one of the most distinctive writers to have emerged from South Asia in the last two decades." Originally from a remote town in the northeastern hills of India, Siddhartha Deb crisscrosses the country to explain the rise of Hindu authoritarianism and the fall of Indian democracy.
With a journalist's commitment to on-the-ground reportage and a literary writer's sensitivity, Deb describes how prime minister Narendra Modi and his party--a formation explicitly beholden to European fascists--has deftly exploited modern technologies, the media, and market forces to launch a relentless campaign on minorities, women, dissenters, and the poor.
Deb narrates Modi's emergence from an obscure paramilitary volunteer to world leader, but he also includes portraits of resistance exemplified by figures like Arundhati Roy, the assassinated journalist Gauri Lankesh, and the group of political prisoners known as the BK 16. An unforgettable portrait of the country as it prepares for crucial national elections in 2024.
Born in north-eastern India in 1970, Siddhartha Deb is the author of The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India, a narrative nonfiction book that was a finalist for the Orwell Prize in the UK, winner of the PEN Open award in the United States, and published without its first chapter in India because of a court order. A columnist for the "Bookends" section of The New York Times Book Review and a contributing editor the The New Republic, Deb's journalism, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Nation, Dissent, n+1, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Baffler. He is also the recipient of grants from the Society of Authors in the UK and the Nation Institute and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies at Harvard University and the Howard Foundation at Brown University. He is a professor of literary studies at the New School in New York.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.1.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 300 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80429-217-6 / 1804292176 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80429-217-4 / 9781804292174 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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