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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9789382816702 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Terms of availability |
Purchase |
| Note |
Indulekha.com, Indulekha Media Network, Palathinkal Estate, Vellappally Lane, Kottayam, Kerala – 686 001 Phone No.0484-2304060 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
F |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kunal Basu |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
KALKATTA |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Pan Macmillan India |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2015/11/10 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Size of unit |
312 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
KALKATTA - Kunal Basue<br/>‘Bawdy and brilliant, Kalkatta is a compelling story of outsiders looking in’ - Mohammed Hanif<br/>‘A riveting novel … timely, thought-provoking, insightful’ - Sharmila Tagore<br/><br/>Jami is the Gigolo King of Kalkatta. Smuggled into India from Bangladesh and given refuge by his uncle, a leader<br/>of the ruling Communist Party, he grows up in Zakaria Street—a Little Baghdad of the old—dreaming of becoming a pukka Kalkatta-wallah. When friendship with a local gang disqualifies him from school, he ends up as assistant to a passport forger,<br/>and then a masseur. Soon enough, innocent massage leads to ‘plus plus treatments’, and Kalkatta opens its doors, drawing Jami into the world of the rich and famous, housewives, tourists and travelling executives, and occasionally to high-paying and<br/>dangerous ‘parties’. Danger looms, too, from rivals and the police, and the ever-present risk of losing his cover. Jami’s shadowy double life takes a turn for the unexpected when he meets Pablo, a young boy who suffers from leukemia, and his single mother<br/>Mandira. Made to oscillate between his refugee family, the neighbourhood gang, his massage-parlour clients, even the cultured world of Bengali intellectuals inhabited by Mandira, he succeeds in becoming a true Kalkatta-wallah, but a stranger to himself. Until<br/>his love for Pablo threatens to destroy everything, and drive him away even from his beloved Kalkatta.<br/> |
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Fiction |
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Literary Fiction |
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Lending |
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