Thackeray Mansion(English, Paperback, Mukherji Mani Sankar)
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In this sequel to Chowringhee, the third instalment in the life and tribulationsof the naïve and innocent young Shanker, he is once again out of a joband without a roof on his head. After much difficulty he finds a job as amanager in a grand but crumbling building in the posh area of the city:Thackeray Mansion on Scudder Street. The narrator directs his keen eyeand sympathetic ear to tell captivating stories of those who live in thehomes within a home of Thackeray Mansion, and those who work in it. Themysterious disappearance of Philip sahib’s wife, the hilarious monologuesof the feisty Poppy Biswas and the grouchy Baradaprasanna, the seductiveSulekha Sen who morphs into the respectable Seema Chatterjee, andthe love of Dorothy Watts for Rabindranath Tagore: stories nestle withinstories and the result is an astonishing novel filled with joys and sorrows,laughter and tears, despair and hope.