Books set in Kolkata, India

Kolkata

• 2008

  Sea of Poppies

  2008 · Amitav Ghosh · novel

  1838: opium fields up the Ganges, and a ship of convicts and migrants leaving Calcutta.

• 1985

  The City of Joy

  1985 · Dominique Lapierre · historyAnand Nagar, Kolkata

  A Polish priest and a rickshaw puller in Anand Nagar, a slum of Calcutta.

• 1973

  India Song

  1973 · Marguerite Duras · play

  1937: Anne-Marie Stretter’s last night of the monsoon at the French embassy in Calcutta.

• 1966

  The Vice-Consul

  1966 · Marguerite Duras · novel

  A French vice-consul in disgrace, an ambassador’s wife, and a beggar woman in Calcutta.