In the late nineteenth century in a small village in northern India a thirteen-year-old Brahmin widow meets a Muslim sarangi player and elopes with him. Many years later their daughter Jaddanbai moves to Bombay and becomes a star of the early talkies. Chateau Marine her home on Marine Drive is famous for its evening mehfils and for the dreams it...
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 28 mm
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978-81-7223-697-7 (9788172236977)
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Kishwar Desai has worked in print and broadcast media as journalist scriptwriter TV anchor producer and the head of a TV channel in India. Her first book Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt was published by HarperCollins India in 2007.
Kishwar lives between London Delhi and Goa. This is her first novel and has won of the 2010 COSTA first novel award and was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2009.
