{"product_id":"calcutta-9780143422457","title":"Calcutta","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Amit Chaudhuri\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalcutta is Amit Chaudhuri’s account of two years in the city. Using the elections of 2011 as his fulcrum, Chaudhuri evokes all that is most particular and extraordinary about the city—from its houses with their slatted windows to its effervescent cultural life and its pujas and Christmas. He paints too an acute, and often ironic, picture of life in the city today—of its malls, restaurants, its middle class who leave and then return reluctantly, and its itinerant poor. Lyrical, brilliantly observed, and profound, Calcutta is one of the finest books ever written about this city.About The Author:Amit Chaudhuri is the author of five novels, of which the most recent is The Immortals, and numerous works of non-fiction, most recently Calcutta: Two Years in the City and Telling Tales. Chaudhuri has received several awards such as the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the UK’s Society of Authors’ Betty Trask Award for best first novel and Encore Prize for best second novel, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and most recently the Infosys Prize for outstanding contribution to literary studies and the West Bengal government’s Rabindra Puraskar for his writings on Tagore. He was made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009 and was also one of the judges for the Man Booker International Prize 2009. He is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46296437915799,"sku":"9780143422457","price":293.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143422457.webp?v=1769304740","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/calcutta-9780143422457","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}