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Local DescriptionSchool presentation plate inside cover, name on half title, worn DescriptionWhat do we do when the world's walls - its family structures, its value-systems - crumble? The central character of this novel, 'Moor' Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic-bohemian Bombay family, finds himself in such a moment of crisis. His mother, an emotional despot, worships beauty, but Moor is ugly, he has a deformed hand. Promotion info'India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker AwardsWinner of Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1995. Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1995. |