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Sister India
de Payne, Peggy
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1573221767
- ISBN 13
- 9781573221764
- Librería
-
Wilson, Wisconsin, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. Head and heel of spine coverings bend in on edges. Dust jacket has small bends on edge of head of spine. Brown spine and edges with gold lettering on spine, orange covers. 275 pages.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
The exotic and suspenseful New York Times Notable Book that tells the story of an eccentric guest-house keeper in Varanasi, India, and the passions evoked by her sacred city along the Ganges The Lonely Planet recommends the Saraswati Guest House, and meeting Madame Natraja, "a one-woman blend of East and West," as well worth a side trip. Over the course of a weekend, several guests turn up, shocked to encounter a three-hundred-some-pound, surly white woman in a sari. Then a series of Hindu-Muslim murders leads to a citywide curfew, and they unwittingly become her captives. So begins a period of days blending into nights as Natraja and her Indian cook become entangled in a web of religious violence, and their guests fall under the spell of this ancient kingdom--at once enthralled and repelled by the begging children, the public funeral pyres, the holy men bathing in the Ganges at dawn. This is a traveler's tale, a story about the strange chemistry that develops from unexpected intimacies on foreign ground. And Peggy Payne 's extraordinary talent vividly conjures up the smells of the perfume market, the rhythms of holy men chanting at dawn, the claustrophobic feel of this ancient city's tiny lanes, and the magic of the setting sun over the holy Ganges. For anyone who has harbored a secret desire to go to India and be transformed, Sister India , called "mesmerizing" by Gail Harris and "a modern version of E. M. Forster's classic A Passage to India " by Dan Wakefield, takes you on this journey without ever leaving home.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Virtuous Volumes et al.
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 020904
- Título
- Sister India
- Autor
- Payne, Peggy
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good+
- Edición
- 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1573221767
- ISBN 13
- 9781573221764
- Editorial
- Riverhead Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Palabras clave
- Fictional Eccentrics and Eccentricities Americans India Overweight Women Payne, Peggy Boardinghouses
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Virtuous Volumes et al.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
