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Chargement... This is London: Life and Death in the World City (2016)par Ben Judah
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is important journalism, simply listening to immigrants who live on the unglamorous side of London: tenement labourers, litter-pickers, betting shop regulars, wannabe gangsters, low level officials, prostitutes, cornershop clerks, agency carers. It's about poverty, segregation, white flight, boredom, pessimism. This, too, is London. ( ) This is important journalism, simply listening to immigrants who live on the unglamorous side of London: tenement labourers, litter-pickers, betting shop regulars, wannabe gangsters, low level officials, prostitutes, cornershop clerks, agency carers. It's about poverty, segregation, white flight, boredom, pessimism. This, too, is London. An interesting look at London from many immigrants point of view, Poles, Romanians, Nigerians, Filipinas, Arabs, etc. A vision of London the city of magnetic bright light and opportunity juxtaposed against the immigrant reality. It is an unrelenting look at the poverty associated with being an illegal immigrant. Though the author does seek out those who are not illegal and some who are obviously wealthy, it is the poverty that pervades the book that will remain with you. Ben Judah attempts to portray their lives through pen portraits of them and their surroundings, while also conveying them in their own words. Many times through the book you feel you've met the person and a window has been opened on their lives. But often it just feels unrelenting. Worth reading as a look at London from another side. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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 fossilised 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, this is a compulsive and deeply sympathetic book on a dizzying world city from one of our brightest new writers. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)942.1004History and Geography Europe England and Wales London Historical periods; Modified standard subdvisions of London Modified standard subdvisions of London Ethnic and national groupsClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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