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New Old World (Hardcover)
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New Old World (Hardcover)
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After several years documenting the rise of China, award-winning
Indian journalist Pallavi Aiyar moved to Brussels, the headquarters
of the European Union, to discover a Europe plagued by a financial
crisis and unsure of its place in a world where new Asian
challengers are eroding its old and comfortable certainties. With a
lively mix of memoir, reportage and analysis, Aiyar takes the
reader on a romp across the continent, meeting workaholic Indian
diamond merchants in Antwerp, upstart Chinese wine barons in
Bordeaux, Sikh farmhands in the Italian countryside, and Indian
engineers running offshore energy turbines in Belgium. In the
Europe of today everything is in flux, as she discovers through
conversations with Muslim immigrants struggling to define their
identities, the austere bosses of Germany's world-beating companies
and bewildered Eurocrats struggling to keep the European Union from
splitting apart. Examining the diverse challenges the continent
faces today, among them, bloated welfare states, the accommodation
of Islam, the European ambitions of Indian and Chinese
entrepreneurs, and ancient intra-cultural fissures. New Old World
offers a panoramic look at Europe's first-world crisis from a
unique Asian perspective.
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