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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-050-7
Pages: 268
Publish Date: Dec, 2006
Genre: Fiction
The Crow Eaters
A Novel
BY Bapsi Sidhwa
Loading his pregnant wife, infant daughter, and widowed mother-in-law into a bullock cart, Faredoon Junglewalla—Freddy for short—leaves his ancestral village in the forests of central India, bound for the bustling city of Lahore. Despite the nagging of his unbearable mother-in-law, Freddy’s business and family flourish, and he soon becomes a patriarchal figure in the thriving Parsee community. This endearing family saga provides a vibrant window onto life in India under British colonial rule, and a nation on the threshold of historic transformation.
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