{"product_id":"calcutta-two-years-in-the-city-by-amit-chaudhuri","title":"Calcutta Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri - USED","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 intimate, luminous portrait of Calcutta. \u003cbr\u003e Chaudhuri guides us through the city where he was born, the home he loved as a child, the setting of his acclaimed novels a place he now finds captivating for all the ways it has, and, perhaps more powerfully, has not, changed. He shows us a city relatively untouched by the currents of globalization but possessed of a self-renewing way of seeing, of inhabiting space, of apprehending life. He takes us along vibrant avenues and derelict alleyways; introduces us to intellectuals, Marxists, members of the declining haute bourgeoisie, street vendors, domestic workers; brings to life the city s sounds and smells, its architecture, its traditional shops and restaurants, new malls and hotels. And, using the historic elections of 2011 as a fulcrum, Chaudhuri looks back to the nineteenth century, when the city burst with a new vitality, and toward the politics of the present, finding a city still not recovered from history yet possessed of a singular modernity.\u003cbr\u003e Chaudhuri observes and writes about Calcutta with rare candor and clarity, making graspable the complex, ultimately ineluctable reasons for his passionate attachment to the place and its people.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43175712653375,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/10442823482297.jpg?v=1777359123","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/calcutta-two-years-in-the-city-by-amit-chaudhuri","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}