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Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
India, 1920: exotic, glamorous, and violent, as the country begins to resist England's colonial grip. In the midst of this turmoil, Isabel, a young British military wife, begins a passionate liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor and Oxford graduate who insists, against all odds, on the right to be both black and British. Their secret devotion to each other takes them across India in a terrifying, deadly race against time and tradition. This powerful...
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In a braided narrative that unites the stories of two striking women, Charlotte Bacon explores the emotional and psychological turbulence of suppressed family histories, the bravery needed to renew broken lives, and the difficulties we all have in responding to the pain of others.
Anna Singer, a charmingly independent young New Yorker, feels derailed after losing her father to a car accident and her husband to a younger woman. She books a trip to...
23) The palace tiger
Author
Series
Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
24) Ragtime in Simla
Author
Series
Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First Carroll & Graf edition.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Traces the efforts of BBC filmmaker Ray Bhullar and her colleagues to document life in an experimental open prison where convicted murderers share their lives in a humble village, a site that becomes subject to the dubious moral codes of its drama-seeking visitors.
35) Heat and dust
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in gang raids and criminal plots. She is intrigued by the Nawab's charm and aggressive courtship, and soon begins...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Simplified edition.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and the charming Dr. Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divodes the British and Indian communities in anger, distrust, and fear.
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