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Cargando... City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (1993 original; edición 2003)por William Dalrymple (Autor)
Información de la obraLa ciudad de los djinns por William Dalrymple (1993)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Dalrymple gives an entertaining history of Delhi, India and the mughals who conquered and architected it. ( ) Between the twenties and the forties, Iris Portal’s youth had been spent in that colonial Delhi ‘In retrospect,’ I said. ‘Do you think British rule was justified?’ ‘....But on balance I think you must never take land away from a people. A people’s land has a mystique. You can go and possibly order them about for a bit, perhaps introduce some new ideas, build a few good buildings, but then in the end you must go away and die in Cheltenham.’ Iris sighed. ‘And that, of course, is exactly what we did.’ ****** I learned a lot of interesting from this book (partridge fights, Mumbai food deliverers' caste, eunuch caste etc.), interviews and dialogues very always a pleasure to read - humorous, lively, yet very often insightful. Why 4 stars then? Well, historical references and vignettes were sometimes a bit thick to wade through. Although there's probably nothing wrong with them and they're more than appropriate, it's just they're hard to digest on the go - one probably should savor them relaxed :) This was the wrong book to read prior to my trip to India. All of the fantastic stories that the author relates seem to end with, "these wonderful sights/monuments/environments/people have all been completely destroyed, and nothing is left except worthless ruins". He makes Delhi seem like a wasteland, all the more disgusting and pathetic in light of its former splendor. The only positive of this book is that the stories he relates are interesting. In short, this book was a major downer. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Acreedor al Premio Thomas Cook en 1994, este libro nos brinda un original retrato de Delhi y de sus estratos históricos a través de angostas callejuelas, mezquitas, ruinas abandonadas y templos mortuorios. Aprovechando su estancia en Delhi como corresponsal de la prensa inglesa, el autor tiene la oportunidad de entrar en contacto con la realidad india Nos relata sus encuentros con una serie de personajes que incluye desde los místicos sufís y los sanadores musulmanes, hasta los miembros de una cofradía de eunucos, filósofos, músicos y calígrafos, e integrantes de la comunidad sij. No sólo estamos frente a un libro de viaje, sino también ante un diario personal escrito con una enorme sensibilidad. Un relato que, a través del viaje, además de ofrecer una imagen de la India más actual, saca a la superficie las huellas de un pasado distante que, sin embargo, sigue proyectándose en el país de hoy. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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