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The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Kushanava Choudhury
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Description for The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. 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 the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to a city built between a river and a swamp, where the moisture-drenched air swarms with mosquitos after sundown. ... Read more
A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. 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 the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to a city built between a river and a swamp, where the moisture-drenched air swarms with mosquitos after sundown. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408888889
SKU
V9781408888889
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Ref
99-3
About Kushanava Choudhury
Kushanava Choudhury grew up in Calcutta and New Jersey. After graduating from Princeton University he worked as a reporter at the Statesman in Calcutta. He went on to receive a PhD in Political Theory from Yale University before returning to Calcutta to write a book about the city. The Epic City is his first book.
Reviews for The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Like all good epics, Choudhury's heartfelt and well-observed portrait of the city of his birth promises to stand the test of time
Oliver Balch, Literary Review
A beautifully observed and even more beautifully written new study of Calcutta. In its author, Kushanava Choudhury, we clearly have an important new talent
William Dalrymple
Guardian, Summer Reading
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Oliver Balch, Literary Review
A beautifully observed and even more beautifully written new study of Calcutta. In its author, Kushanava Choudhury, we clearly have an important new talent
William Dalrymple
Guardian, Summer Reading
... Read more