Ebook {Epub PDF} The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre

The City of Joy is a book that takes you through a roller coaster of emotions. Lapierre’s descriptive writing shows you the horror and hopelessness of living in the slums of Calcutta, while also showing how the people overcome that hopelessness through the festivals of their gods, celebrations, and willingness to serve and help their fellow man/5. In his Author's Note Dominique Lapierre says that we should not extend his impressions gathered in "The City of Joy" to the whole of India, that they are based on "one small corner of it--a small area of Calcutta called the City of Joy. The City of Joy is not seen by tourists/5. ― Dominique Lapierre, The City of Joy. 2 likes. Like “La destrucción voluntaria de una jirafa africana o de un kagú de Nueva Caledonia, en la medida en que compromete la supervivencia misma de tales especies, es el plano filosófico y científico, quizás tan grave como el asesinato de un hombre y tan irreparabale como la laceración de /5.

Book Review: The City of Joy (Dominique Lapierre) Can joy come out of a slum's web of miseries? In the real-than-life novel "City of Joy", it does. The story revolves around the interwoven lives of Stephan Kovalski (a Polish Catholic priest), Max Loeb (an American doctor), and Hasari Pal (an Indian rickshaw driver), who found themselves. In this inspiring work, Dominique Lapierre tells stories of extraordinary love and heroism - performed by ordinary people. Deep within one of the poorest sections of Calcutta, Lapierre found that this city, which produced Mother Teresa, had many other selfless inhabitants. LaPierre helped to write O Jerusalem and Is Paris Burning--both great books that are documented by facts. In the City of Joy, LaPierre tells the stories of families and priests and others (haven't finished it yet) and gives a truthful feel for Calcutta with its sadness, its greatness, its smells and feels.

City of Joy Foundation and other humanitarian causes The City of Joy is about the unsung heroes of the Pilkhana slum in Kolkata. Lapierre donated half the royalties he earned from this book to support several humanitarian projects in Kolkata, including refuge centres for leper and polio children, dispensaries, schools, rehabilitation workshops. Dominique Lapierre. Dominique Lapierre was born in Châtelaillon-Plage, Charente-Maritime, France. At the age of thirteen, he travelled to America with his father who was a diplomat (Consul General of France). He attended the Jesuit school in New Orleans and became a paper boy for the "New Orleans Item". He developed interests in travelling. The City of Joy is a book that takes you through a roller coaster of emotions. Lapierre’s descriptive writing shows you the horror and hopelessness of living in the slums of Calcutta, while also showing how the people overcome that hopelessness through the festivals of their gods, celebrations, and willingness to serve and help their fellow man.