The award-winning author Amit Chaudhuri has been widely praised for the beauty and subtle power of his writing and for the ways in which he makes "place" as complex a character as his men and women. Now he brings these gifts to a spellbinding amalgam of memoir, reportage, and history in this intimat
Calcutta: Two Years in the City Rbun
β Scribed by Chaudhuri, Amit
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-jm
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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