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The Epic City

The World on the Streets of Calcutta

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The Epic City

De: Kushanava Choudhury
Narrado por: Homer Todiwala
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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 12, 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.

Once the capital of the British Raj, and then India's industrial and cultural hub, by 2001 Calcutta was clearly past its prime. Why, his relatives beseeched him, had he returned? Surely, he could have moved to Delhi, Bombay or Bangalore, where a new Golden Age of consumption was being born. Yet 15 million people still lived in Calcutta.

Working for the Statesman, its leading English newspaper, Kushanava Choudhury found the streets of his childhood unchanged by time. Shouting hawkers still overran the footpaths, fish-sellers squatted on bazaar floors; politics still meant barricades and bus burnings, while Communist ministers travelled in motorcades.

Sifting through the chaos for the stories that never make the papers, Kushanava Choudhury paints a soulful, compelling portrait of the everyday lives that make Calcutta. Written with humanity, wit and insight, The Epic City is an unforgettable portrait of an era, and a city which is a world unto itself.

©2017 Kushanava Choudhury (P)2017 Audible, Ltd
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In Calcutta after 40 years

I have lived in Calcutta in the seventies. Went back after 40 years for the city called me. This book made me understend what has happened in between. Original, emotional, historical, lovely description of its inhabitants and so very true.

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