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In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerizing beauty. Amid beautiful, decaying wooden houses in Georgetown, on coastal sugarcane plantations, and in the dark... read more
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First Sentence edit
LIFE, as we know, is a living, shrinking affair, and somewhere down the line I became taken with the idea that man and his world should be renewed on a daily basis.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Kirkus Reviews: Best Fiction of 2011. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Rahul Bhattacharya (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Country: India
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9780330447492
Page Count: 281
Publisher: Picador
Country: India
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9780330447492
Page Count: 281
Awards edit
- Hindu Literary Prize (2011: Fiction)
- Man Asian Literary Prize (Finalist, 2011, Shortlist)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.92
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