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The Epic City

- The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Af: Kushanava Choudhury Engelsk Paperback

The Epic City

- The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Af: Kushanava Choudhury Engelsk Paperback
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL WRITING PRIZE

''Witty, polished, honest and insightful, The Epic City is likely to become for Calcutta what Suketu Mehta''s classic Maximum City is for Mumbai'' William Dalrymple, Observer

When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times.

After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to Calcutta, the city which his immigrant parents had abandoned. Taking a job at a newspaper, he found the streets of his childhood unchanged. Shouting hawkers still overran the footpaths, fish sellers squatted on bazaar floors; and politics still meant barricades and bus burnings.

The Epic City is a soulful, compelling and often hilarious account of this metropolis of fifteen million people that is truly a world unto itself.

''A beautifully observed and even more beautifully written new study of Calcutta'' Guardian

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL WRITING PRIZE

''Witty, polished, honest and insightful, The Epic City is likely to become for Calcutta what Suketu Mehta''s classic Maximum City is for Mumbai'' William Dalrymple, Observer

When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times.

After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to Calcutta, the city which his immigrant parents had abandoned. Taking a job at a newspaper, he found the streets of his childhood unchanged. Shouting hawkers still overran the footpaths, fish sellers squatted on bazaar floors; and politics still meant barricades and bus burnings.

The Epic City is a soulful, compelling and often hilarious account of this metropolis of fifteen million people that is truly a world unto itself.

''A beautifully observed and even more beautifully written new study of Calcutta'' Guardian

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781408888834
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1408888831
Kategori: Kolkata
Udg. Dato: 9 aug 2018
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 148mm
Højde: 199mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 9 aug 2018
Forfatter(e): Kushanava Choudhury
Forfatter(e) Kushanava Choudhury


Kategori Kolkata


ISBN-13 9781408888834


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 272


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 148mm


Højde 199mm


Udg. Dato 9 aug 2018


Oplagsdato 9 aug 2018


Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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