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Great Eastern Hotel

By (author) Ruchir Joshi

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A rich, teeming, involving epic of war, famine, love and culture-clash in imperial Calcutta during World War Two -- Joshi is 'The brand new experience after Rushdie: a megashow, Russian in size, Indian in soul' (India Today) This is the second novel from Ruchir Joshi, author of The Last Jet-Engine Laugh which many stubbornly continue to believe is a twisted, flawed masterpiece of a debut novel. In India that book was greeted as the most significant Indian debut since Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Joshi is the real thing, and here to stay and thrive as a writer. This new book is a brilliant prospect, promising a rich, teeming, involving tale with an unusual, fascinating setting -- the fading imperial city of Calcutta in the 1940s, with world war, famine, culture-clash, colonial retreat, exile, rebellion, idealism and religious strife all in the mix. It will be less formally daring than his first (i.e. less jump-cutting time-wise), which, commercially speaking, is probably good news. And it will have all the epic sweep, resilience of the human spirit and war-torn romance that make for blockbuster success!

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Normally shipped | Active
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 1 May 2006
Language |
Format | Hardback
Pages | 352
Dimensions | 240 x 159 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-0071-4393-1
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BISAC | fiction / general
Expected | 30 Dec 1899

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