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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Nov 2001
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $19.00
Pages: 624
In India during the mid-1970s, after a "state of internal emergency" is declared, four very different people--a widowed seamstress, a student, and a man and his nephew who have fled their village's caste violence--find their lives becoming inextricably intertwined
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