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Chowringhee: SHORTLISTED FOR INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE


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SHORTLISTED FOR INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE, 2010 Winner of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award, 2007 'A terrific page-turner... An utter treat... Chowringhee might, to many eyes, supply more unashamed reader-transporting enjoyment than any other fiction of the year.' -- Boyd Tonkin, Independent Welcome to the Shahjahan, one of Calcutta's oldest and most venerable hotels. Meet its newest receptionist and hear of the people who spend their days and nights behind the Shahjahan's grand façade, a world where greed, seduction and death coexist with love, luxury and pride. Chowringhee reveals an irresistible vision of a lost - and loved - metropolis, an homage to an old India of myth and memory. 'Chowringhee is one of those novels you don't want to end. It teems with life, creating an entirely absorbing world.' -- Vikas Swarup, author of Slumdog Millionaire

About the Author :
Sankar - the pen-name of Mani Sankar Mukherji - is one of Bengal's most widely read modern novelists. Two of his novels, Seemabaddha (Company Limited) and JanaAranya (The Middleman) were filmed by Satyajit Ray. He lives in Kolkata (Calcutta).

Review :
Utterly captivating... This old-fashioned feast of storytelling crawls with character, heaves with drama and bursts with flavour... A sumptuous buffet of a book. Chowringhee has that essential quality of a good novel: the capacity to escape, and help the reader escape, time. You want to turn the pages, but you do not want the pages to end... A lovely, charming book brimming with life. I lost myself in it for days... A wonderful experience - both gripping and moving. Chowringhee is one of those novels you don't want to end. It teems with life, creating an entirely absorbing world. A delight - a wonderful sprawling saga


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781848877627
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1848877625
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: SHORTLISTED FOR INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE


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