Chowringhee
Language: English
Published by Atlantic Books, 2009
- Hardcover
- Used

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- Title
- Chowringhee
- Author
- Sankar
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1843549131
- ISBN 13
- 9781843549130
- Item weight
- 1.44 pounds
Welcome to the Shahjahan, one of Calcutta's oldest and most venerable hotels. Its opulent suites, elegant restaurants, huddled bars and hidden backrooms teem with people, whose extraordinary stories are told by Sankar, the newest member of staff.
Sankar describes the unfulfilled desires, broken dreams, and unbidden tragedies of the people who spend their days and nights within the Shahjahan's grand façade. Like
Bengal itself, this is a place where greed, seduction and death live alongside love, luxury and pride.
With wit, warmth, and ferocious energy, Chowringhee reveals to us an entire universe. One of the great novels of contemporary Indian literature, it presents a glittering vision of a lost metropolis, and an homage to an old Bengal of myth and memory.
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About the Author
SANKAR - the pen name of Mani Sankar Mukherji - is one of Bengal's most widely read novelists. He was born in Bongaon, which later became an Indo-Bangladesh border town. His father, a lawyer, moved to Kolkata before the Second World War. Following his father's untimely death in 1947, Sankar gave up his studies and started earning his livelihood - first as a street-hawker, then as a typewriter cleaner, and a part-time school teacher.He then became the youngest clerk in a broking firm at the city's famed Royal Exchange.A chance meeting provided him with the opportunity to become the last clerk to the last English lawyer, Noel Fredrick Barwell, of Calcutta's High Court.Barwell died in 1953. The following year Sankar began an unforgettable serial in the popular Bengali literary weekly, Desh, in which he recreated the last days of the last 'English Lawyer', his chamber and his cases.Kato Ajanarey, was published in 1955, and remains an all-time Bengali bestseller.Other novels followed, including Chowringhee (1962) and Gharer Madhye Ghar, short stories, travelogues and biographies. Two of his novels, Seemabaddha (Company Limited) and Jana Aranya (The Middleman) were filmed by Satyajit Ray. Mani Sankar Mukherji lives and works in Kolkata (Calcutta).
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