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- Author: Ivan Arthur
- Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 250
- ISBN-10: 9386050145
- ISBN-13: 9789386050144
- Format: 13.3 x 20.3 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Back in the 1940s, when Mumbai was still Bombay, the twin urban villages of Kevni-Amboli were home to a lively Catholic community--predominantly East Indian, but also Anglo-Indian, Goan and Mangalorean. In this hugely entertaining novel set in that vanished world, Ivan Arthur spins a delightful web of joint families, priests, sodality groups, gossips, friendly drunks, vagrants, simpletons, lovers and maiden aunts.
Among the many lovable and eccentric characters are Hanging Gardens, a simple gravedigger who, by a quirk of fate, nurtures a millionaire mechanic; Blaise Misquitta, a stickler for punctuality who has a grave dug in anticipation of his wife's death; Tristao Dias Ribeiro, a Portuguese official who builds a massive church because his wife's illness has forced him out of the conjugal bed; Kirit, the studious first-ranker who slits his wrist--and survives--because he cannot marry Miss Alice or kiss her on the lips; Peter, a mysterious water-carrier who sings operatic arias; and of course the endearing tomboy Kitty, in whose memories the past and present merge.
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- Author: Ivan Arthur
- Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 250
- ISBN-10: 9386050145
- ISBN-13: 9789386050144
- Format: 13.3 x 20.3 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Back in the 1940s, when Mumbai was still Bombay, the twin urban villages of Kevni-Amboli were home to a lively Catholic community--predominantly East Indian, but also Anglo-Indian, Goan and Mangalorean. In this hugely entertaining novel set in that vanished world, Ivan Arthur spins a delightful web of joint families, priests, sodality groups, gossips, friendly drunks, vagrants, simpletons, lovers and maiden aunts.
Among the many lovable and eccentric characters are Hanging Gardens, a simple gravedigger who, by a quirk of fate, nurtures a millionaire mechanic; Blaise Misquitta, a stickler for punctuality who has a grave dug in anticipation of his wife's death; Tristao Dias Ribeiro, a Portuguese official who builds a massive church because his wife's illness has forced him out of the conjugal bed; Kirit, the studious first-ranker who slits his wrist--and survives--because he cannot marry Miss Alice or kiss her on the lips; Peter, a mysterious water-carrier who sings operatic arias; and of course the endearing tomboy Kitty, in whose memories the past and present merge.
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