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 The City of Joy - Dominique Lapierre
 The City of Joy - Dominique Lapierre ... Book is published 1988-07-15 by Grand Central PublishingNewest Review: ... of one of the poorest and most crowded quarters of Calcutta, but, as he gets to know the slum dwellers he finds more heroism, ... more ... more love and ultimately more happiness than in many a city of the West. Above all he discovers that the slum had the magical ability to fashion Saints. he lives in the slum, sharing the same life as the others living there , in a shack without proper ventilation and no electricity or light, infested with rats, Cockroaches, Spiders and surrounded by filth , with Eunuchs as his neighbors and the local mafia don befriending him and treating him like their God father and a Leper colony where the inmates needed his help.....more |
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The City of Joy - Dominique Lapierre: An Epic Venture into the Soul of humanity (1768 words)
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City Of Joy Author: Dominique Lapierre No of Pages : 514 About the Author ~~~~~~~~~~~ Dominique Lapierre is a French Author born in La Rochelle, France, studied and graduated from Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. He spent 14 years as an International reporter with the news magazine Paris Match. His wife Dominique Conchon-Lapierre ( they were married in 1980) is his partner in the City of Joy Foundation (registered in France under the official name of Action pour les enfants des lépreux de Calcutta), which is a purely volunteer-driven association. The couple lives in the south of France. The other books written by Lapierre include ... Read the complete review
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