Publication |
London, Faber and Faber Limited, 2006.
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Description |
614pBrown spine
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Summary/Abstract |
A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by a master blender of the picaresque and the tragic. To say he captures the textures of Indiawell and creates larger-than-life characters is to make light of his achievement.
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Standard Number |
9780571230587 Pb.
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