Review: The City of Good Death by Priyanka Champaneri
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Review: The City of Good Death by Priyanka Champaneri

Hindustan Times  

In Varanasi, death is good business. First-time writer Priyanka Champaneri sets her expansive novel The City of Good Death in Varanasi. The hostel is a place where people bring their dying relatives to breathe their final moments in a city that celebrates death, and where the minutiae of funereal rituals assume gravitas like no place else. “the month of Shraavana was approaching… Such a death would complete the trifecta: to die a good death in the holiest city at the holiest time of the year. What a dream that was, a death that the family could return home and brag about.” Primarily, The City of Good Death is the story of two cousins and their boundless love.

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In The City of Good Death, author Priyanka Champaneri weaves a layered story around a death hostel in Varanasi
3 years, 7 months ago

In The City of Good Death, author Priyanka Champaneri weaves a layered story around a death hostel in Varanasi

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Champaneri’s inspired work juggles the natural and the supernatural, the ghats and the grief that abound in Kashi as well as the rites and rituals surrounding death, with ease. A deeply engrossing work about a death hostel in Kashi [Varanasi>, it weaves into it, the pull of relationships, the deeply embedded belief of ‘a good death’ and the power of …

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