Sam Dalrymple

Shattered Lands

Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of 2025 for the Financial Times, The Week, Spectator, BBC History Magazine, NPR, History Today, Waterstones and Daunts'A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian' PETER FRANKOPAN'Remarkable ... The prose is vivid, the storytelling cinematic' GUARDIAN

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780008466824
• ISBN-10: 0008466823
• Artikelnr.: 70727230

Autorenporträt

SAM DALRYMPLE's acclaimed debut book, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia, was an international bestseller, a #1 bestseller in India, and was named one of "the best history books to read in 2025" by The Week. It has been translated into three languages (Hindi, Marathi and Malayalam), was shortlisted for the 2025 Eastern Eye Award for History and longlisted for the Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman 2025 for Best Debut. Dalrymple is a Delhi-raised Scottish historian and award-winning filmmaker. He has worked across South and Central Asia and in 2018, he co-founded Project Dastaan, a peace-building initiative that reconnects refugees displaced by the 1947 Partition of India. His debut film, Child of Empire, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022, and his animated series Lost Migrationssold out at the BFI the same year. He runs the history Substack @travelsofsamwise.