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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)

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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)
Autorenporträt
RUCHIR JOSHI is the author of The Last Jet-Engine Laugh, a novel, and Poriborton!, a book about the 2011 state elections in West Bengal. He has been a columnist for the Telegraph, The Hindu, Economic Times and other newspapers, and has contributed to Granta, India Magazine, Man's World, Seminar, E-Flux, Witte de Witt Review, the Indian Quarterlyand more. He has also directed documentaries and essay films, including the award-winning Tales from Planet Kolkata.
Rezensionen
'Sprawling ... exuberant ...compelling ... allow yourself to be immersed in this Great Calcutta Novel that captures both the sweep of history and the pulse of individual lives' Scroll.in

'Great Eastern Hotel isn't just a love letter to a lost city - it's a lusty, brawling, cigarette-stained, gin-soaked declaration that history belongs as much to the pickpocket in the shadows as to the statesman in the ballroom' The Statesman

'Joshi scales down the event calendar and blows up the human drama so skillfully that his ordinary characters become magnificent creatures, anything but hapless victims of history ... The novel thrums with a visceral passion for its subject' Frontline

'Has there been a novel of such scale since A Suitable Boy? ... this novel serves as a meditation on what was, what is and perhaps what will be' Outlook India

'Sprawling and ambitious ... There is a forceful and robust beauty to Joshi's prose ... Joshi's city teems with stories and he peoples it with a riotous assortment of personalities' Open Magazine

'Every phrase and image has been honed to perfection ... Read it for a masterclass in the joy of writing from the heart' Deccan Herald

'Joshi has managed the impossible with this book - he has captured every nuance and quirk of Calcutta and its people, everything that makes the city both unique and ubiquitously Indian ... an extraordinary achievement ... I am so happy I read this book' The Asian Age

'A film-maker's novel, so vividly immersive it makes mid-forties Calcutta a living being, at once human and epic, a Joycean polyphony of overlapping lives and a granular history of the nation during wartime' Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis

'Glorious, brimming with life, Great Eastern Hotel contains multitudes. Ruchir Joshi captures crumbling empires and wayward human lives in this headlong, sensory dive into 1940s Calcutta. A towering novel - one for our times, and for all time' Nilanjana S. Roy, author of Our Freedoms

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