Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat
by Roberts, Joe
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1861971923
- ISBN 13
- 9781861971920
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
New Delhi: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. A highly collectible first edition/printing, protected in a new brodart wra pper. Where's Kalighat? In Calcutta, it's home to a temple for the much-worshippe d Indian goddess Kali. A fearful sight, she's a "black-skinned woman with b lazing eyes" and blood dripping from her protruding tongue. Devotees give o fferings to encourage her to scare away demons. As a symbol, Kali is repres entative of the bustling city of Calcutta in all its vibrancy and extremity , a city which Joe Roberts vividly evokes in this sensitive travel book. Joe, wife Emma and baby son Llewelyn moved to Calcutta for five months to experience its rich intensity. What they found was a city that "despite its poverty and overcrowding" is "grand, battered and soulful". Roberts's book tells the story of their stay, of the history, art and culture of the place as well as the idiosyncrasies of the various characters they meet. A post-colonialist languor tinges the world in which they move.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000014126
- Title
- Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat
- Author
- Roberts, Joe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+/Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1861971923
- ISBN 13
- 9781861971920
- Publisher
- HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
- Place of Publication
- New Delhi
- Date Published
- 1999
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...