- Fiction, India, Sadhus, Large type books
Sampath Chawla is born into a family slightly off kilter, to a mother not quite like her neighbours, in a town not quite like other towns. After years of failure, it does not seem as if Sampath is going to amount to much.
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Contemporary, warm, comic and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 220
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Editorial Empúries, Atlantic Monthly Pr
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- heb, English
- ISBN
- 9780753159651
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