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The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations, decay and corruption, this sinuous, subtle, surprising novel is a masterly evocation of time and place, of colonialism and the backwash of empire.
It is the story of an embittered Ceylonese lawyer, Sam Obeysekere himself a product of empire - 'obey' by name and by nature - and of a family that once had wealth and influence but starts to crack open when Sam's charismatic father dies leaving gambling debts, an ex-beauty of a wife, an unstable daughter and an inadequate son.
But the writing has been on the wall for a generation, ever since another sibling died in his cot- And at the heart of the novel is the Hamilton Case, a 'White Mischief' murder scandal that shakes the upper echelons of the island's society. Sam's involvement in it makes his name but paradoxically ensures that he will never achieve his ambition.
A miracle of delicacy and restraint, full of volte faces, and narrated with perfect pitch in a voice that catches both the tragedy and comedy of their situation, this is a gripping, nuanced tale of the end of an era, suffused with 'the unbearable thought that everything might have turned out differently'.
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- Run-time:9 hours 57 mins
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- Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publication Date:05/05/2011
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- ISBN:9781446469774
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-
eAudio Download - Immediately Available
- Format:eAudiobook MP3
- Run-time:9 hours 57 mins
- File size:820.71MB
- Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publication Date:05/05/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781446469774
