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 glimpse of what capitalism will become in the coming, post-Western world. The story ...(展开全部)

Since the opening up of India’s economy in 1991, wealth has poured into the country, and especially into Delhi. Capital bears witness to the astonishing metamorphosis of India’s capital city, charting its emergence from a rural backwater to the center of India’s new elites. No other place on earth better embodies the breakneck, radically disruptive nature of the global economy’...(展开全部)

Since the opening up of India’s economy in 1991, wealth has poured into the country, and especially into Delhi. Capital bears witness to the astonishing metamorphosis of India’s capital city, charting its emergence from a rural backwater to the center of India’s new elites. No other place on earth better embodies the breakneck, radically disruptive nature of the global economy’...(展开全部)

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 glimpse of what capitalism will become in the coming, post-Western world. The story ...(展开全部)

You may have heard rumours of great changes in Asia. In Capital, a novelist takes you on an intimate tour of an erupting Asian megalopolis: Delhi, capital of India. Speaking to billionaires and slum dwellers, drug dealers and bureaucrats, psychoanalysts and metal traders, he paints a dazzling portrait of a city in a moment of stupefying change. Enormous fortunes have been made;...(展开全部)

You may have heard rumours of great changes in Asia. In Capital, a novelist takes you on an intimate tour of an erupting Asian megalopolis: Delhi, capital of India. Speaking to billionaires and slum dwellers, drug dealers and bureaucrats, psychoanalysts and metal traders, he paints a dazzling portrait of a city in a moment of stupefying change. Enormous fortunes have been made;...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accu...(展开全部)

著有《仙那度》（In Xanadu）、《精灵之城》（City of Djinns）、《圣山来客》（From the Holy Mountain）、《迦梨时代》(The Age of Kali)、《白莫卧儿人》（White Mughals）、《最后的莫卧儿人》（The Last Mughal）以及最新出版的《九种人生》（Nine Lives）。他曾获汤玛斯·库克旅游文学奖(Thomas Cook Travel Book Award)、《星期日泰晤士报》年度英国年轻作家奖(Young British Writer of the Year Award)、法国星盘图书奖(French Prix d’Astrolabe)、沃尔夫森历史奖(Wolfson Prize for History)、苏格兰年度图书大奖(Scottish Book of the Year...(展开全部)