Rajat Chaudhuri's Blog - Posts Tagged "calcutta"

Interview in Unboxed Writers with novelist Anu Kumar. Here we talk about the inspiration behind my new book `Hotel Calcutta', other hotel books, re-imagining the city and authors writing about the urban experience. Read it here: http://unboxedwriters.com/2013/03/a-s...

The Telegraph, Calcutta has done a short and nice review of Hotel Calcutta in its Paperback Pickings section. Read it here: http://telegraphindia.com/1130329/jsp...

' Lethal games and unspeakable terrors lie between these covers, the spine oozing spilt bodily fluids. Chaudhuri clearly inhabits several worlds. His interest in surrealism goes beyond the perfunctory; he takes the preternatural seriously. Read on, though, and his themes reveal a deep fascination with human response to the extraordinary, with the gossamer threads between the rational and inexplicable ...' Hotel Calcutta gets a nice stylised review in Helter Skelter magazine. Read on: http://helterskelter.in/2013/04/book-...

Hotel Calcutta was recently reviewed by novelist Anu Kumar for The Thumb Print magazine. She writes `Rajat Chaudhuri is at his best bringing alive the beguiling and menacing allure of such places, and the characters that could belong only here. The lady in the museum; the 'khansamah' lost in his memories of almost a century ago of Annie Besant and the count who never dies; the old-fashioned librarian with his uncanny abilities, the two guests and their hostess in Lianville who find themselves inexplicable adversaries of each other.' Read the full review here: http://thethumbprintmag.com/content.p...

The Asian Review of Books (Hong Kong) has this to say: 'Hotel Calcutta invites a hungry, urgent reading ... a seductive swilling of mystery, travellers’ tales, fantasy, noir, idiosyncrasy, ghosts, painters, theosophists, porn, intoxication, science and hearsay. Eleven tales in all, each about obsession or a passionate undoing' Read the full review of Hotel Calcutta here: http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com/new...