{"product_id":"nobody-does-the-right-thing-9780822346821","title":"Nobody Does the Right Thing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel packed with telling details and anecdotes about life in contemporary India, set in the rural villages of Bihar and the metropolises of Bombay and Delhi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNobody Does the Right Thing\u003c\/i\u003e imaginatively portrays the forces shaping contemporary India, and it is a remarkable reader of mass culture and popular narrative forms, of the worlds of Hindi cinema, pulp fiction, sensational journalism, and globalized media.”—\u003cb\u003eSiddhartha Deb\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Outline of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Point of Return\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNobody Does the Right Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply compassionate novel about art, life, and everything that lies in between.”—\u003cb\u003eLaila Lalami\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e Secret Son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNobody Does the Right Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is a quietly but deeply impressive novel. It not only takes us into the living, ambivalent textures of an India that is relatively little written about: the India of villages, highways, second-class train compartments, and old but second-rate metropolises. It also transforms itself, in the process, into an exemplar of \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e that variegated terrain might be addressed.”—\u003cb\u003eAmit Chaudhuri\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Immortals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“To know a country so you have its dirt beneath your fingernails is a difficult thing. Read \u003ci\u003eNobody Does the Right Thing\u003c\/i\u003e and you will have India beneath your fingernails.”—\u003cb\u003eAkhil Sharma\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Obedient Father\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e I. The Car with the Red Light 1\u003cbr\u003e II. Ulan Bator at Night 33\u003cbr\u003e III. The Lady with the Dog 61\u003cbr\u003e IV. Kiss of the Spider Woman 99\u003cbr\u003e V. News of a Kidnapping 123\u003cbr\u003e VI. Nobody Does the Right Thing 153\u003cbr\u003e VII. The Glass Menagerie 175","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406058856791,"sku":"9780822346821","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822346821.jpg?v=1730494390","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nobody-does-the-right-thing-9780822346821","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}