CHOWRINGHEE
Sankar
CHOWRINGHEE - 1 - USA Penguin Books 2022/01/01 - 403
This is the Indian classic, published in English for the first time. 'Here, day and night were interchangeable. The immaculately dressed Chowringhee, radiant in her youth, had just stepped on to the floor at the nightclub.'Set in 1950s Calcutta, Chowringhee is a sprawling saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta's largest hotels, the Shahjahan. Shankar, the newest recruit, recounts the stories of several people whose lives come together in the suites, restaurants, bars and back rooms of the hotel.
9780670097760
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction
India--Kolkata
Social conditions
Hotels
Bengali fiction
Autobiographical fiction
Manners and customs
F / SAN/CH
CHOWRINGHEE - 1 - USA Penguin Books 2022/01/01 - 403
This is the Indian classic, published in English for the first time. 'Here, day and night were interchangeable. The immaculately dressed Chowringhee, radiant in her youth, had just stepped on to the floor at the nightclub.'Set in 1950s Calcutta, Chowringhee is a sprawling saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta's largest hotels, the Shahjahan. Shankar, the newest recruit, recounts the stories of several people whose lives come together in the suites, restaurants, bars and back rooms of the hotel.
9780670097760
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction
India--Kolkata
Social conditions
Hotels
Bengali fiction
Autobiographical fiction
Manners and customs
F / SAN/CH