The Epic City

The World on the Streets of Calcutta

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Beschreibung

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE</b><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL WRITING PRIZE</b><br><br><b>'Witty, polished, honest and insightful, <i>The Epic City </i>is likely to become for Calcutta what Suketu Mehta's classic <i>Maximum City </i>is for Mumbai' William Dalrymple, <i>Observer</i></b><br><br>When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. <br><br>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. <br><br><i>The Epic City</i> is a soulful, compelling and often hilarious account of this metropolis of fifteen million people that is truly a world unto itself.<br><br><b>'A beautifully observed and even more beautifully written new study of Calcutta' <i>Guardian</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781408888834

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

199 x 128 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC