{"product_id":"b076hbggms","title":"The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL WRITING PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Witty, polished, honest and insightful,  The Epic City  is likely to become for Calcutta what Suketu Mehta's classic  Maximum City  is for Mumbai' William Dalrymple,  Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from Princeton, he moved back to Calcutta, the city which his immigrant parents had abandoned. Taking a job at a newspaper, he found the streets of his childhood unchanged. Shouting hawkers still overran the footpaths, fish sellers squatted on bazaar floors; and politics still meant barricades and bus burnings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Epic City  is a soulful, compelling and often hilarious account of this metropolis of fifteen million people that is truly a world unto itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A beautifully observed and even more beautifully written new study of Calcutta'  Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52797683499224,"sku":"YSL28950","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/91AOmpLnwdL._SY1500.jpg?v=1792841337","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b076hbggms","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}