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A Backward Place
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A Backward Place

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0349142750
ISBN-13 9780349142753
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Abacus
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Dec 7th, 2017
Print length 320 Pages
Weight 250 grams
Dimensions 12.60 x 19.70 x 2.10 cms
Ksh 1,800.00
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A classic novel from the Booker-winning author of Heat and Dust - an Indian Vanity Fair.

Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place. All but one are Westerners who have come to Delhi to experience an alternative way of life. But, far from being hippies, their ability to adapt to this exotic culture often leaves something to be desired. Etta, an aristocratic, faded beauty maintains her Parisian chic while Clarissa talks enthusiastically about the simple life but stops short of ever roughing it herself. On the other hand Bal, the one Indian protagonist, holds quite Western aspirations to Hollywood glamour.

A Backward Place humorously explores contradictions in attitudes and lifestyles and the interplay between culture and individuality. But it is also a Dickensian drama, charting the highs and lows of everyday life against the enchanting backdrop of a bustling Indian city.


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