The Holder Of The World
de Bharati MUKHERJEE [signed]
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa blanda
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- As New/No Jacket Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0394588460
- ISBN 13
- 9780394588469
- Librería
-
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: Alfred A Knopf, 1993. Book. Illus. by Mitzi Rawls. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. "An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee prove she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past into a tale that is singularly intelligent and provocative." --AMY TAN This is the remarkable story of Hannah Easton, a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670, "a person undreamed of in Puritan society." Inquisitive, vital and awake to her own possibilities, Hannah travels to Mughal, India, with her husband, and English trader. There, she sets her own course, "translating" herself into the Salem Bibi, the white lover of a Hindu raja. It is also the story of Beigh Masters, born in New England in the mid-twentieth century, an "asset hunter" who stumbles on the scattered record of her distant relative's life while tracking a legendary diamond. As Beigh pieces together details of Hannah's journeys, she finds herself drawn into the most intimate and spellbinding fabric of that remote life, confirming her belief that with "sufficient passion and intelligence, we can deconstruct the barriers of time and geography.....
Sinopsis
The Holder of the World, (1993) is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee. It is a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, placing the story in two centuries (17th and 20th). The novel involves time travel through virtual reality, locating itself in 20th century Boston, 17th century Colonial America, and 17th century India during the spread of the British East India Company. It also references Thomas Pynchon's novel, V..
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- Librería
- Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 11i
- Título
- The Holder Of The World
- Autor
- Bharati MUKHERJEE [signed]
- Ilustrador
- Mitzi Rawls
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo As New
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket Issued
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394588460
- ISBN 13
- 9780394588469
- Editorial
- Alfred A Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1993
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