Welcome to the Shahjahan one of Calcuttas oldest & most venerable hotels. In Chowringhee" the Shahjahans new receptionist regales his audience with stories of the people who spend their days & nights within the Shahjahans grand facade. Like Bengal itself this is a place where greed seduction & death live alongside love luxury & pride. With wit warmth & ferocious energy " Chowringhee" reveals to us an entire universe. One of the great novels of contemporary Indian literature it presents a glittering vision of a lost metropolis & an homage to an old Bengal of myth & memory."