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The City of Joy

Dominique Lapierre

Paperback | Pages: 552 pages

Rating: 4.21 | 5608 Users | 482 Reviews

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Title	:	The City of Joy
Author	:	Dominique Lapierre
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 552 pages
Published	:	July 15th 1988 by Grand Central Publishing (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India

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This book inspired by true story. To write this book, Dominique Lappier had to live in slum area in Calcutta, India for about two years. So that this slum area became the setting of the book.

The book told about the story of epic in a place called Anand Nagar or City of Joy. For Brother Stephan - a priest from Poland - came to this place made him to a suprise. He had to live in such filtry condition: a few water to share, bad sanition, etc. But, here, Stephan found the light of God that he seeked for. All the people in Anand Nagar, eventhough lived in very poor condition, they care on another. Brother Stephan learned much things from the people in Anand Nagar. Here, people in all religion (Hindu, Budha, Moeslem, and Christian) lived in a high tolerance.

For Hasari Pal, leaving his home in Bihar, Bengal was not what he wanted. The fall short of harvest, made him to sell his cow: Rani and left his home to Calcutta for better living. Then, he found that Calcutta was harder than in Bihar. He made his children became beggar, and Hasari himself had to sell his blood. They all lived in the street. By the help of a friend, Ram, Hasari became an pedicab driver. From the money he collected, Hasari could afford him and his family to move to Anand Nagar. Until one day, Hasari found himself was affected by TBC - many poor people like Hasari suffered from this illness, including his best friend, Ram - But Hasari still have one obligue, to find his eldest daughter a husband. But, finding a good husband meant expensive dowry. To complete the dowry, Hasari had to sell his (dead) body for medical purposes. Hasari died at the day his daughter wedding.

Besides Hasari Pal and Brother Stephan, there were so many heroes in this book such as Marx, a doctor from America, Mother Sabia, etc.

This book has been filmed in 1985 and starred by Patrick Swayze and Om Puri as Hasari.

For me, this book enlighted me. I learned how to more appreciate to other people and any of living things.

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Original Title:	La cité de la joie
ISBN:	0446355569 (ISBN13: 9780446355568)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Stephan Kovalski, Hasari Pal, Max Loeb
Setting:	Calcutta(India)

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This book is as eye-opening as a trip to another planet. And that is what the Calcutta of the story is: a place so far removed from the average American's experience that to go there would be life-changing. The resiliency and inner peace of its inhabitants are marvelous to behold as story after heart-wrenching story unfolds. The stark differences between first-world and third-world problems is almost incomprehensible, but my thanks for this book and the attempts of its author to make me fully

An extraordinary book. Marvelous. Beautiful. Oh, how I have missed out on this jewel of a book earlier - I don't know! This makes you wonder how precious and endowed your life is, how seemingly apparent difficulties in our regular lives pale in comparison to that of many others who aren't so endowed. The narrative was so fluid that I wish at times the book never had to come to an end. But, oh well. Clearly one of my best reads in 2019!

I haven't read such a beautiful book in recent times. Not that the writing is all that good, but the content and the real stories of struggle,pain and the spirit to life that strives even in the worst of conditions makes you wonder about the sheer mental strength it takes to be one among the original "City of Joy".Though the setting is quite similar to largely explored themes in Indian movies and books by now, the sheer intensity of involvement of the main characters with the many heroes of the



An exposé of poverty in wretched detail. People die slowly from backbreaking work or from hunger, or their limbs melt from leprosy long after their families have banished them because of the disease, or they fall into festering sewers and drown unnoticed. The slums of Calcutta arose due to an influx of people who exchanged the deprivation of the rural life for urban poverty, which was just another kind of precarious existence: "The earthquake that shook Bihar on January 15, 1937, caused hundreds

To be honest I didnt think much of this book as I was reading it, but since finishing it I cant stop thinking about it. Definitely a story that will stay with me for many years to come.

Ok, so I know they made some movie based on this book with Patrick Swayze, but that is irrelevant. This book tells the story of life in India and the struggles of a family forced to leave their country home and migrate to the crowded city of Calcutta if I remember correctly. I'm pretty sure that it is not a true story, but based on real events-maybe it's historical fiction. Anyway, I thought it was great.