Across The Lakes

by Amal Chatterjee (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $7.90

  Despite the seemingly unbridgeable social divides of Culcutta, a city where pleasure and indolence coexist with extreme poverty, three young people are inextricably connected, by family, by proximity, by accident. Political power play and corruption, petty local gangsterism, the smell and colour of Indian city life, all combine with a delicate vein of humour in this fluent first novel

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.27

  Despite the seemingly unbridgeable social divides of Calcutta, a city where pleasure and indolence co-exist with extreme poverty, the lives of three young people are inextrcably connected, by family, by proximity, by accident. Political power play and corruption, petty local gangsterism, the smell and colour of Indian city life, all combine with a delicate vein of humour in this fluent first novel.