- Social conditions, Hotels, Fiction, India, fiction
A much loved and endlessly readable classic of Indian literature, finally available in English for the first time. Chowringhee, first published in Bengali in 1962, is a sprawling saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta's largest hotels, the Shahjahan.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Śaṃkara
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 396
- Publisher
- Atlantic
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781843549130
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