Climate Capitalism
Akshat Rathi
Hachette India
Pp 272, Rs 699
Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. But contrary to the doomist narrative, the world has already begun deploying the solutions. On a journey across five continents, this book tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change – from the Chinese bureaucrat who did more to make electric cars a reality than Elon Musk to the Danish students who helped to build the world’s longest-operating wind turbine.
The New China Playbook
Keyu Jin
Penguin Random House
Pp320
A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy. China’s economy has been booming for decades now. A formidable and emerging power on the world stage, the China that most Americans picture is only a rough sketch, based on American news coverage, policy, and ways of understanding. This book is an illuminating account of a burgeoning world power, its past, and its potential future.
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
Hachette India
In 1972, workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania found a skeleton at the bottom of a well. How it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood inhabited by immigrant Jews and African Americans. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalise him, Chona, who ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store and other Chicken Hill residents worked together to keep the boy safe.
The Nigerian Mafia: Mumbai
Onyeka Nwelue
Abibiman Publishing UK
Pp 228, Rs 599
Nollywood actor, Uche Mbadiegwu leaves his Surulere neighbourhood in Lagos for Bandra in Mumbai to join Bollywood, so he could make it big, hoping to play exceptional roles. Like a flash, Periwinkle appears in his life and changes everything. Tired of living in a pigsty, Efemena wants to live a life of independence, but there is more to being a Nigerian in Mumbai — a constant escape from the Indian police and narcotics agents.
The Taliban and I
Sushmita Bandyopadhyay Translated by Arunava Sinha
Westland Books
Price Rs 399
In September 2013, the body of a woman was found in the Paktika province of Afghanistan, riddled with twenty bullets. She was identified as Sushmita Bandyopadhyay from Kolkata. The murder marked the tragic and violent end of a story that began in the second half of the 1980s in the city of Kolkata, when she met, fell in love with, and finally married, in 1988, a businessman man from Afghanistan named Jaanbaz Khan.
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