La cité de la joie

mass market paperback, 635 pages

French language

Published Jan. 5, 1994 by Robert Laffont.

ISBN:: 978-2-266-06134-6

(3 reviews)

City of Joy (French: La Cité de la joie) is a 1985 novel by Dominique Lapierre. It was adapted as a film by Roland Joffé in 1992. Calcutta is nicknamed "the City of Joy" after this novel, although the slum was based on an area in its twin city of Howrah.

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5 stars

Much fun fluff that turned out to be seriously positive and decent-human (OK, shifter, but still) series. Yeah, I more or less nommed the series in a run.

Nithin

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Jan. 4, 2002

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