City of Joy - BookWyrm

532 pages

English language

Published Aug. 4, 1992 by Warner Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-446-35556-8

(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

bookelf

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Jan. 1, 1010

Subjects

Conduct of life.
Altruism.
Refugees -- India -- Calcutta.
Calcutta (India) -- Description and travel.
Calcutta (India) -- Social conditions.