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Zusatztext Demonstrates that you can find an exotic civilization and human jungle just round the corner in your own city Informationen zum Autor Ben Judah was born in London. He has travelled widely in Russia! Central Asia and the Levant. His writing has featured widely! including the New York Times ! the Evening Standard ! the Financial Times and Standpoint . In 2016! Ben was chosen as one of Forbes magazine's 30 under 30 in European media. His first book! Fragile Empire ! was published by Yale University Press in 2013. Klappentext 'This truly extraordinary book is as raw! powerful! unflinching! witty! engaging! shocking! in-your-face and occasionally both heartwarming and heartbreaking as the great but complex and flawed city it chronicles. I've lived in London for three decades yet found something I didn't know about it on virtually every page' Andrew Roberts! author of Napoleon the Great 'Having spent the last year meeting people along several of the world's busiest migration trails! it is fascinating to read Ben Judah's powerful account of where some of them end up. Judah has created an alternative and essential guide to London! and Londoners! in 2015.' Patrick Kingsley 'Ben Judah offers no answers; but bears witness. He reports the stories of London's immigrants with a smart mind! a light touch and a brave and compassionate heart. These voices deserve to be heard. This is London is an important! state of the nation! eye-opening report from our increasingly ghettoized capital city.' Dan Boothby! author of Island of Dreams 'This mesmerising! trenchant and deeply compassionate work of journalism is assuredly not just for a London audience. Rather it is a metropolitan microcosm of the human experience for anyone concerned about our turbulent world' Non-Fiction Book of the Month! Bookseller 'Judah is an intrepid reporter and classy political scientist' Guardian 'Judah has travelled far and wide. He's talked to men and women in all walks of life and! what's more! he's listened. There's a real freshness and vividness to his reportage! a real conviction in his analysis' Scotsman A major work of narrative non-fiction from a fresh new voice. Zusammenfassung Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2016! formerly known as the Samuel Johnson Prize. This is the new London: an immigrant city. Over one-third of Londoners were born abroad! with half arriving since the millennium. This has utterly transformed the capital! for better and for worse. Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent! but here he turns his reporter's gaze on home! immersing himself in the hidden world of London's immigrants to reveal the city in the eyes of its beggars! bankers! coppers! gangsters! carers and witch-doctors. From the backrooms of its mosques! Tube tunnels and nightclubs to the frontlines of its streets! Judah has supped with oligarchs and spent nights sleeping rough! worked on building sites and talked business with prostitutes; he's heard stories of heartbreaking failure! but also witnessed extraordinary acts of compassion. This is London explodes fossilized myths and offers a fresh! exciting portrait of what it's like to live! work! fall in love! raise children! grow old and die in London now. Simultaneously intimate and epic! here is a compulsive and deeply sympathetic book on this dizzying world city from one of our brightest new writers. ...
