Bangalore Calling e-bog
74,45 DKK
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The employees at the Callus call centre in Bangalore juggle false identities, abusive customers and the tugs of family and community. An Anglo-Indian trainer is aghast at the overt Americanisms adopted by her eager trainees. A van driver who yearns for a son petitions the god Ayyappan by playing devotional songs inside the van. A brash Jimi Hendrix-loving agent tries to change the music and s...
E-bog
74,45 DKK
Forlag
Hachette India
Udgivet
7 august 2012
Genrer
FA
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9789350094211
The employees at the Callus call centre in Bangalore juggle false identities, abusive customers and the tugs of family and community. An Anglo-Indian trainer is aghast at the overt Americanisms adopted by her eager trainees. A van driver who yearns for a son petitions the god Ayyappan by playing devotional songs inside the van. A brash Jimi Hendrix-loving agent tries to change the music and stokes the driver's deep resentment. A young girl travels across the great divide between the slum she lives in and the shiny glass complex where she works as a toilet cleaner. Through fifteen linked stories, Bangalore Calling explores the social costs of outsourcing the erosion of cultures, the displacement of vernacular languages and accents in a world that's not yet flat.