Across The Lakes

by Amal Chatterjee (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $13.53

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.19

  Three very different lives collide in the vast city: Meena, a pretty middle-class girl with her happy little family and her life which is almost too cosy for comfort; Putul, idle, amiable scion of the moneyed upper classes; and Choto, son of a servant, a slum-dweller, making an increasingly perilous job of staying alive. Despite the seemingly unbridgeable social divides of Calcutta, a city where pleasure and indolence co-exist with extreme poverty, these three young people are inextricably connected, by family, by proximity, by accident. Fate deals Choto the cruellest hand, but it shakes Putul and Meena too, and by the end of the novel it is clear that their comfortable lives can never the same again. 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.