This Is London

Life and Death in the World City

De: Ben Judah

Narrado por: Joe Jameson

Duración: 11 h y 58 m

Resumen del Editor

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2016, formerly known as the Samuel Johnson Prize.

This is the new London: an immigrant city. Over one-third of Londoners were born abroad, with half arriving since the millennium. This has utterly transformed the capital, for better and for worse.

Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent, but here he turns his reporter's gaze on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of London's immigrants to reveal the city in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and witch-doctors. From the backrooms of its mosques, Tube tunnels and nightclubs to the frontlines of its streets, Judah has supped with oligarchs and spent nights sleeping rough, worked on building sites and talked business with prostitutes; he's heard stories of heartbreaking failure, but also witnessed extraordinary acts of compassion.

This is London explodes fossilised myths and offers a fresh, exciting portrait of what it's like to live, work, fall in love, raise children, grow old and die in London now. Simultaneously intimate and epic, here is a compulsive and deeply sympathetic book on this dizzying world city from one of our brightest new writers.

©2018 Ben Judah (P)2018 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd

Reseñas de la Crítica

"An eye-opening investigation into the hidden immigrant life of the city." (Sunday Times)

"Full of nuggets of unexpected information about the lives of others.... It recalls the journalism of Orwell." (Financial Times)

"Judah grabs hold of London and shakes out its secrets." (The Economist)

Worth listening

The author revealed a different world of London and had some great interviews from various sources.