A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Urban, Anthropology, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Aman Sethi ISBN: 9780393089721
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: October 22, 2012
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Aman Sethi
ISBN: 9780393089721
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: October 22, 2012
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

A 2012 New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice

An intimate portrait of an invisible man—a powerful story of one man’s life that contains multitudes.

Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage.

Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of old Delhi. How did he end up this way? In an astonishing debut, Aman Sethi brings him and his indelible group of friends to life through their adventures and misfortunes in the Old Delhi Railway Station, the harrowing wards of a tuberculosis hospital, an illegal bar made of cardboard and plywood, and into Beggars Court and back onto the streets.

In a time of global economic strain, this is an unforgettable evocation of persistence in the face of poverty in one of the world’s largest cities. Sethi recounts Ashraf’s surprising life story with wit, candor, and verve, and A Free Man becomes a moving story of the many ways a man can be free.

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A 2012 New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice

An intimate portrait of an invisible man—a powerful story of one man’s life that contains multitudes.

Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage.

Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of old Delhi. How did he end up this way? In an astonishing debut, Aman Sethi brings him and his indelible group of friends to life through their adventures and misfortunes in the Old Delhi Railway Station, the harrowing wards of a tuberculosis hospital, an illegal bar made of cardboard and plywood, and into Beggars Court and back onto the streets.

In a time of global economic strain, this is an unforgettable evocation of persistence in the face of poverty in one of the world’s largest cities. Sethi recounts Ashraf’s surprising life story with wit, candor, and verve, and A Free Man becomes a moving story of the many ways a man can be free.

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