A powerful and poignant novel, set in and around a riot in India in 1989, is about love, hate, cultural collision, the ownership of history, and the impossibility of knowing the truth.
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A powerful and poignant novel, set in and around a riot in India in 1989, is about love, hate, cultural collision, the ownership of history, and the impossibility of knowing the truth.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition, 1st printing; complete print line. Thin, white-out line drawn across the top edge; no other markings. Very light surface/edge wear to the dust jacket; nothing too bad. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 272 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very good in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated 'For Jamie, who knows the world this comes from--best' by author on half-title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. Dust jacket is essentially as new in protective mylar sleeve. Book has softening to base of spine and a dampstain over the entire lower front corner of the page block. Dye from the first free endpaper has soaked into the second free endpaper. Tharoor is an Indian author, politician, and journalist and is a globally recognized speaker on India's economics and politics, as well as on freedom of the press, human rights, Indian culture, and international affairs. He has won the Rajika Kripalani Young Journalist Award, the Federation of Indian Publishers' Hindustan Times Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Excelsior Award, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award, the Zakir Hussain Memorial "Pride of India" Award, GQ's Inspiration of the Year Award, the Hakim Khan Sur Award, the Sarva Deshiya Prathibha Award, and the First Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular and Peace Award. He is the author of 'Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century' and 'Bookless in Baghdad'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.