Rajat Chaudhuri's Blog - Posts Tagged "book-reviews"
The Telegraph review of Hotel Calcutta
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...
The Thumb Print magazine reviews Hotel Calcutta
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 Sunday Guardian reviews Hotel Calcutta
The Sunday Guardian has reviewed Hotel Calcutta under its Essential Readings section on 30th June, 2013. The short review is headlined: A dazzling ‘wall of stories’ in Calcutta. Read the full review on The Sunday Guardian's website here: http://www.sunday-guardian.com/bookbe...
Hotel Calcutta reviewed by Asian Review of Books
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...
