Delirious Delhi
Inside India's Incredible Capital
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Narrated by:
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Sanjiv Jhaveri
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By:
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Dave Prager
About this listen
Delhi exists in a kind of quantum state: In Delhi, all things are true at once. When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave and Jenny moved to a city of 16 million people and, seemingly, twice that many horns honking at once. Delirious Delhi depicts India's capital as the two experienced it, from office life in the rising tech hubs to the traffic jam philosophy that keeps people sane in the gridlock leading to them. With only their sense of humour as their guide, Dave and Jenny set out to explore a city in which ancient stone monuments compete with glass-clad shopping malls to define the landscape. What follows is a top-to-bottom snapshot of a city in the thick of loud and accelerating change. Anyone new to Delhi will have their understanding of it magnified by this book. And anyone who already knows Delhi will appreciate this candid tribute to a city that's everything to everyone at the same time.
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Editor reviews
Dave Prager and his wife left Brooklyn to live as expats in India for 18 months, and Delirious Delhi is an account of their experiences there. Narrator Sanjiv Jhaveri is a master of subtle delivery, using small shifts in cadence and tone to express the couple's complicated relationship with India. While the audiobook is mostly a memoir about Prager's attempts to find a balance between the best and worst that India has to offer, such as periodically checking into a five-star hotel to take a respite from the poverty he saw around him, he also includes information that expats may find interesting or useful.
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- lynne5
- 14-09-22
Great description of Delhi.
As someone who has spent a lot of time in Delhi I loved this book. 1 great criticism, it's not an auto rickshaw, it's a tuk-tuk!
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- Corin Doregger
- 25-06-23
Annoying reader
I went to Delhi for the first time last year and didn’t enjoy it. After listening to the story, the think I’d appreciate it much more if I returned. The reader’s voice grated on me as the intonation was often wrong.
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- Kindle Customer
- 17-06-17
amzing book about dehli people
i love this book.it is also funny and interesting to know everything about Dehli people
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- LaSanta
- 14-10-22
Brought back fond memories
I really enjoyed the book possibly because I was there around the same time (few years earlier). Brought back things I forgotten.
Even if you haven’t been it’s still worth a listen to gain a good sense of what it’s like for expat in amazing Delhi 😊
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- Flying Fluskey
- 27-03-15
Disturbing narration
The narration is jarring, with weirdly stressed words and this leads to it being a tough listen.
This is more of a biography than anything but seems entirely unnatural.
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- Sunshine
- 21-10-21
Extraordinarily amateurish and poor narration
I would have enjoyed some parts of this book if only it was narrated by somebody who could read aloud. The excitable, screechy emphasis on the wrong things was so irritating and painful to listen to and changed the meaning of the author so much that it was impossible to finish listening to this book. Also, the author fancies himself as a new Bill Bryson but his jokes don't work and sound trite and formulaic. Don't waste your time on this book, even if you get it for free
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