TY - BOOK AU - Sankar AU - Arunava Sinha (tr.) TI - CHOWRINGHEE SN - 9780670097760 U1 - F PY - 2022////01/01 CY - USA PB - Penguin Books KW - Fiction KW - India--Kolkata KW - Social conditions KW - Hotels KW - Bengali fiction KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - Manners and customs N1 - 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 ER -