{"product_id":"dfu8oj6vctx7","title":"The Epic City by Kushanava Choudhury [Paperback]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShortlisted for the 2018 Ondaatje Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEverything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet fifteen million people still lived in Calcutta. Working for the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eStatesman,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eits 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSifting 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Epic City\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an unforgettable depiction of an era, and a city which is a world unto itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48328821506298,"sku":"DFU8OJ6VCTX7","price":362.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/DFU8OJ6VCTX7_1.jpg?v=1726165159","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/dfu8oj6vctx7","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}