The epic city
Subtitle: the world on the streets of Calcutta
By: Kushanava Choudhury
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781635571561
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Biography; History
Description: When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to a city built between a river and a swamp, where the moisture-drenched air swarms with mosquitos after sundown. Sifting through the chaos for the stories that never make the papers, Kushanava Choudhury paints a soulful, compelling portrait of the everyday lives that make Calcutta.