{"product_id":"calcutta-two-years-in-the-city","title":"Calcutta: Two Years in the City","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1999, amit chaudhuri returned with his family to calcutta he did so tentatively calcutta was where his parents had moved after retirement it was the city he had loved in his youth and in whose lanes he had spent tranquil childhood holidays, one he had made his name writing about but that calcutta had receded and another had taken its place calcutta is chaudhuris account of two years (2009-11) in the great metropolis using the idea of return and the historical elections of 2011 as his fulcrum, he travels between the nineteenth century, when the city burst with a new vitality, to the twentyfirst century, when, utterly changed, it seems to be on the verge of another turn along the way chaudhuri evokes all that is most particular and extraordinary about the city, from its houses with their slatted windows to its effervescent cultural life, its change of season and its christmas and pujas he paints, too, an acute, often ironic and occasionally terribly funny picture of life in the city today, of its malls and restaurants, its fitful attempts to embrace globalisation, its middle class who leave and then return reluctantly, its bygone aristocracy and its homeless and poor itinerants\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Books India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780670086221\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sell Books","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £754.80","offer_id":48001181450417,"sku":"SB-0670086223-C3","price":754.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0670086223.jpg?v=1790988907","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/calcutta-two-years-in-the-city","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}