A Free Man: A True Story of Life & Death in Delhi - Softcover

Sethi, Aman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393346609 ISBN 13: 9780393346602

Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2013

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With A Free Man, Aman Sethi comes to the forefront of an extraordinary new generation of Indian nonfiction writers. His compassion and humor is matched by a fierce determination to tell the stories of ordinary Indians, too often forgotten in the scramble for the spoils of the economic boom. --Hari Kunzru, author of Gods Without Men"

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Like Dave Eggers s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage. Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of old Delhi. How did he end up this way? In an astonishing debut, Aman Sethi brings him and his indelible group of friends to life through their adventures and misfortunes in the Old Delhi Railway Station, the harrowing wards of a tuberculosis hospital, an illegal bar made of cardboard and plywood, and into Beggars Court and back onto the streets. In a time of global economic strain, this is an unforgettable evocation of persistence in the face of poverty in one of the world s largest cities. Sethi recounts Ashraf s surprising life story with wit, candor, and verve, and A Free Man becomes a moving story of the many ways a man can be free."

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• Verlag: W W NORTON & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393346609
• ISBN 13: 9780393346602
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230