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| Author | Dominique Lapierre |
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| Original title | La cité de la joie |
| Translator | Kathryn Spink |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Arrow |
Publication date | 1985 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1985 |
| Pages | 544 |
| ISBN | 0-09-914091-8 |
City of Joy (French: La Cité de la joie) is a 1985 novel by Dominique Lapierre. It was adapted as a film by Roland Joffé in 1992. Calcutta is nicknamed "the City of Joy" after this novel,[1] although the slum was based on an area in its twin city of Howrah.