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Author Siegel, Lee, 1945-

Title Love in a dead language : a romance / Lee Siegel.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1999]
©1999

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 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  SIEGEL    Check Shelf
Description xxiii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note "Being the Kamasutra of Guru Vatsyayana Mallanaga as translated and interpreted by professor Leopold Roth with a foreword and annotation by Anang Saighal following the commentary of Pandit Pralayananga Lilaraja."
Some pages are bound intentionally up-side down and printed in red ink by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-372) and index.
Summary A California professor translating the Kamasutra seduces a student to gain practical experience. The girl is not even an Indian, but a Californian of Hindu extraction and on his return from India, where he baited her with a field trip, the prof lands in hot water.
Subject College teachers -- California -- Fiction.
East Indian Americans -- California -- Fiction.
Teacher-student relationships -- California -- Fiction.
Americans -- Foreign countries -- India -- Fiction.
Vātsyāyana. Kāmasūtra -- Fiction.
Kāmasūtra (Vātsyāyana) (OCoLC)fst01357735
Americans -- Foreign countries. (OCoLC)fst00807504
College teachers. (OCoLC)fst00868114
East Indian Americans. (OCoLC)fst00901040
Teacher-student relationships. (OCoLC)fst01144236
California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Farces.
Erotic fiction.
ISBN 0226756971 (alk. paper)
9780226756974 (alk. paper)
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