| Edition |
Random House trade paperback edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 333 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London: Flamingo, 1997. |
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Includes Reader's Guide. |
| Summary |
The story of an Indian family during the 1969 Communist disturbances in Kerala province. It is told through the eyes of a boy and his sister who are the children of a rich rubber planter. Politics, family drama, illicit love. |
| Awards |
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1997. |
| Subject |
Social classes -- India -- Fiction.
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Twins -- Fiction.
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Kerala (India) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Magic realist fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780812979657 paperback |
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0812979656 paperback |
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