Chowringhee

By Śaṃkara

Subjects: Translations into English, Fiction, general, Fiction, Bengali fiction, Social conditions, Hotels, India, fiction

Description: A much loved and endlessly readable classic of Indian literature, finally available in English for the first time. Chowringhee, first published in Bengali in 1962, is a sprawling saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta's largest hotels, the Shahjahan.