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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)

The City of Joy Paperback | Pages: 552 pages

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Title	:	The City of Joy
Author	:	Dominique Lapierre
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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Dominique Lapierre vividly portrays the poverty, suffering, and destitution that is rife in the city. Yet in the midst of the sufferings, he celebrates the strength and unity of humanity.Lapierre also shed light on the concept of community leadership as he wrote about Stephan Kovalski, a priest with the heart to serve the cause of the poor. Kolvaski managed to lead the poor because he gain their trust and respect with his sincerity to experience what the poor are experiencing, and to live with

This book was given to me a few years ago. I cannot remember all the stories, though reading other reviews brought it back. What I do remember is the vivid picture of poverty. Maybe you cannot travel to another country or live in a slum, but by reading this book, you will get a picture of what life is like for millions of people... it's a world very different from America. Life in pursuit of survival is described, as opposed to life in pursuit of meaning. The pathos, the sense of life's

Dominique LaPierres City of Joy celebrates the resilience and courage of the slum dwellers as they struggle against the dire and inhumane conditions in the city of Calcutta. LaPierre shares a story of hope, humanism and joy in the marginalized community that is often shunned and despised by the upper tiers of society. This provides us a fresh perspective to the common misrepresentation of the poor as despondent and miserable individuals, but instead are admired for their strength and will power.

I am not sure how to start in my review for this book. As a read it was written in a style that keeps you engaged. Alternating most chapters back and forth between two story lines allows you to become involved with the current and still be expectant about the coming chapter. Eventually both of these stories weave into one. Having just recently been to India I found the details to be accurate and he paints a viable image so you can see the story as you read it. From a social standpoint, I was

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.

Amazing, inspiring and perspective changing book !!

I read The City of Joy almost twenty years ago, in middle school. It had a profound effect on me, so when I saw a copy of it a few months ago in a book store, I bought it immediately. The second reading did not disappoint.Much of the scenery of 1960s Calcutta was familiar to me as a tourist earlier this year to an entirely different part of India: the religious cacophony, the slum labor, the baksheesh, the festivals, the filth. Wild traffic, marigolds, eunuchs, kurtas and saris. Truly Kafkaesque