• Anglický jazyk

A Village Dies

Autor: Ivan Arthur

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... Viac o knihe

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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.

  • Vydavateľstvo: Speaking Tiger Books
  • Rok vydania: 2016
  • Formát: Paperback
  • Rozmer: 203 x 133 mm
  • Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
  • ISBN: 9789386050144

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