City of Joy

novel by Dominique Lapierre

By Dominique Lapierre

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Published: 1985
Form: novel
Country of origin: France
Language: French
Publisher: Éditions Robert Laffont
Set in: Kolkata
has edition or translation: City of Joy
instance of: literary work
title: La cité de la joie

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La cité de la joie

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City of Joy (French: La Cité de la joie) is a 1985 novel by Dominique Lapierre. It was adapted as a film by Roland Joffé in 1992. Calcutta is nicknamed "the City of Joy" after this novel, although the slum was based on an area in its twin city of Howrah.

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