New Old World: An Indian Journalist Discovers the Changing Face of Europe, by Pallavi Aiyar
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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.
New Old World: An Indian Journalist Discovers the Changing Face of Europe, by Pallavi Aiyar - Amazon Sales Rank: #1979524 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-29
- Released on: 2015-09-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.44" h x 1.10" w x 6.47" l, 1.10 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
New Old World: An Indian Journalist Discovers the Changing Face of Europe, by Pallavi Aiyar Review
"I’ve been waiting for a book like this to be written, and now it exists. It’s fun, and full of good humor." ―Tyler Cowen
"Aiyar is sharp, funny and knowledgeable. She brings an outsider's skepticism to the much-discussed problems of the European Union and what she considers its declining global importance, leadership and economic strength." --Shelf Awareness
“Fresh insight into how Europeans might learn valuable lessons from developing countries.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“[Aiyar] brings a fresh, thought-provoking perspective to Europe's woes. Her trenchant and often humorous conversations with immigrants, entrepreneurs, politicians, and diplomats illuminate the paradoxes and inconsistencies of Europe's approach to multiculturalism... Through her travels around the continent, Aiyar is able to humanize those who are most frequently represented in the media as alarming statistics.” ―Publisher's Weekly
“With a fluidly pleasing writing style, the author has tackled a potentially dry topic in a way that keeps the reader engaged. A solid addition for anyone with an interest in political, cultural, or economic studies.” ―Library Journal
About the Author Pallavi Aiyar is an award winning journalist who has worked as a foreign correspondent for over a decade, reporting from China, Europe and Indonesia. She was awarded the Prem Bhatia memorial prize for excellence in political reporting for her dispatches from China, and she is the author of the 2008 China memoir, Smoke and Mirrors, which won the Vodafone-Crossword Popular Award. Her 2011 novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in Beijing, was published in the United States, Italy, Belgium and India. She lives in Jakarta.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating informative account of contemporary Europe and its role in the world By Jaylia I know a lot more about select favorite periods in European history than I do about the continent today, but this informative, fascinating, and engaging book went a long way toward bringing me up to date. Indian journalist and author Pallavi Aiyar attended university in England, married a man from Spain, and has lived in and written about the changing world of China, making her perspectives on European economics, politics, and daily life particularly insightful and often eye opening and counterintuitive, at least to me. For instance, worries about contaminated milk and other such concerns aside, Aiyar and her husband generally found shopping much easier in communist China, where eager store owners will reopen their shops for a late customer, than they did in capitalist Belgium, where store schedules cater to employees who don’t want to work evenings or weekends rather than to customer convenience or any business bottom line.The New Old World combines detailed factual reportage of the people, places, and policies of Europe with Aiyar’s personal experiences of living in the capital of the European Union with her young family, which presents a fuller picture than either angle alone would do. Because of her background in China and India, Aiyar also writes fluently about Europe relative to those two rapidly emerging nations. Topics she addresses include the state of the EU, climate change politics, demographic shifts in industry, cultural legacies, immigration, Islam, the euro crisis and the regional squabbles it created, the lingering effects of colonialism, and the very strange political situation in Belgium and how that affected the party she gave in her mixed language Brussels neighborhood. Based on how much I enjoyed New Old World I purchased Aiyar’s earlier book on China, where she lived for seven plus years before Belgium. Aiyar has now moved with her husband and children to Jakarta--I can’t wait to read what she has to say about Indonesia.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Idea written before By Joel Holtz In 2009 the author moved to Brussels, Belgium, home of the European Union headquarters.She writes effectively about Muslim immigrants, the high unemployment and globalization affecting Europe, and an aging European population.The premise is excellent, but a better read is George Friedman's FLASHPOINTS: The Emerging Crisis In Europe.An easy read, but New Old World gets a bit repetitive after awhile and is tough to finish.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Clear-Eyed Perspective & some Surprises; Not only about Europe, but also about China and India By Gadget Fan This book is a great look at present-day Europe as it is. I was interested in this book because I hope to travel to Europe some day, however upon reading it, I see that it is just as valuable for understanding the shifting economy of the world and thus how I should think about my own finances. But what I liked about the book was its perspective, taking a new new look at things not as we wish them to be, but as they are.For example, most people know about the orthodox Jews in the diamond business in Antwerp. Did you know that three-quarters of that business is now run by Indian Jains (most from the same region in India), and that the largest Jain temple outside of India is in Antwerp? Everyone is aware of the numbers of third-world migrants now western countries, but did you know that there are actually more westerners who have moved to third world countries, than vice versa?Much of this book is about the clash between "capitalist China" and "socialist Europe" (the author's terms). It addresses the conflict between viewing hard work as a virtue among people from the third world, versus the various entitlements and protections from the vice of excessive work for Europeans. For example, the largest Indian diaspora outside of the UK is in Italy, where they all learn Italian in order to work, though the Walloons of Belgium would rather be on unemployment than learn Dutch in order to qualify for available jobs.Since this book is described as being rooted in her own experiences living in Europe, I was afraid that too much of it was going to be the diary style of writing that is so common today (e.g. "I visited so and so's office, after long journey ...... surrounded by piles of paper..... was animated and his eyes twinkled as he spoke about his work in ....."). Instead, this is clear eyed economic and social reporting from an international correspondent who not only writes about what she observed in Europe (as well as India and China), but also has delved into the numbers and pulled out some surprises. For example, most people are aware of the "powerhouse" of the German economy. But did you know that the per capita GDP of just Flanders (the Dutch part of Belgium) is higher than that of Germany, UK, or France? After this book, I'm going to keep my eye out for her other writing.
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