by Dominique Lapierre · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221044223
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«La Cité de la Joie» is the novel by Dominique Lapierre, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (500 pages, in French).
In Calcutta, a French Catholic priest, an American doctor, a nurse, and an Indian rickshaw driver settle in a slum known as the City of Joy to help its inhabitants. Their struggle against poverty, amid floods, rats, and scorpions, becomes a hymn to life and hope.
Originally published in 1985. Father Lambert, a central character, is based on Brother Gaston Grandjean, from Morlon (Switzerland).
Dominique Lapierre was a French author.
