Calcutta Two Years in the City

Name: Calcutta Two Years in the City
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ISBN: 9780307454669

ISBN-10: 0307454665

ISBN-13: 9780307454669

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Authors: Amit Chaudhuri

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The award-winning author Amit Chaudhuri has been widely praised for the beauty and subtle power of his writing and for the ways in which he makes "place" as complex a character as his men and women. Now he brings these gifts to a spellbinding amalgam of memoir, reportage, and history in this intimate, luminous portrait of Calcutta.Chaudhuri guides us through the city where he was born, the home he loved as a child, the setting of his acclaimed novels--a place he now finds captivating for all the ways it has, and, perhaps more powerfully, has not, changed. He shows us a city relatively untouched by the currents of globalization but possessed of a "self-renewing way of seeing, of inhabiting…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/14/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Amit Chaudhuri, author of three previous novels, has won several awards for his writing. A contributor to the "London Review of Books," the "Times Literary Supplement," & "The New Yorker," he lives with his wife & daughter in Calcutta.