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AGE OF ANGER : A History of the Present

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Publisher: Juggernaut (2017);

Language: English;

ISBN-10: 9386228114;

ISBN-13: 978-9386228116

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Why do young men and women from the West join an extremist organization like ISIS? Why are we seeing the rise of aggressive right-wing politics in countries such as India, Turkey and USA, the expansion of Islamist terror, massacres in Western metropolises, wars in the Middle East? And in what way is the politics of anger and violence connected?

In this outstanding book, Pankaj Mishra argues that the roots of our age of anger lie in the great economic and political revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Europe and the traumatic social and political changes they brought.

Boldly argued and with a canvas that stretches from Savarkar in India to Rousseau in France, Age of Anger is a must-read to understand the world today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist and novelist. In 1992, Mishra moved to Mashobra, a Himalayan village, where he began to contribute literary essays and reviews to The Indian Review of Books, The India Magazine, and the newspaper The Pioneer. His first book, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995), was a travelogue that described the social and cultural changes in India in the context of globalization. His novel The Romantics (2000), an ironic tale of people longing for fulfilment in cultures other than their own, was published in 11 European languages and won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum award for first fiction. In 2005, Mishra published an anthology of writings on India, India in Mind.

His writings have been anthologised in The Picador Book of Journeys (2000), The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature (2004), Away: The Indian Writer as Expatriate (2004), and A History of Indian Literature in English (2003), among many other titles. Mishra has written literary and political essays for The New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and the New Yorker, among other American, British, and Indian publications. He is a recipient of the 2014 WindhamCampbell Prize for non-fiction.

He had written following Books: Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995); The Romantics (2000); An End to Suffering: the Buddha in the World (2004); India in Mind, edited by Pankaj Mishra (2005); Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond (2006); Kashmir: The Case for Freedom (2011); From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (2012); A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours (2013); Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017)

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