Σύνοψη βιβλίου
Leaving all he had behind, in 1994 English writer and teacher Joe Winter arrived in Kolkata (until 2001 known as Calcutta), and for the next 12 years lived in the heart of one of the most resonant and expressive cities in the world. He immersed himself in the culture of his new surroundings, and as he found his way in teaching, journalism and poetry, gradually he came to sense a kind of clarity. In the festival of Durga Puja, in the poems of Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das; above all in the lives of people present and past, he discovered - always from an outsider's viewpoint - a glimmer of what it can mean to be a Kolkatan. This is a story for the times - a wide-ranging encounter with some of the very forces that have made and make India what it is. While in Kolkata, Joe Winter met and married a Bengali lady, and a family journey is part of the narrative. But there is a deeper family story here, of gods and goddesses, of two countries and continents; and of a handful of roads here and there in a city.
