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From Publishers Weekly
Sundaresan (A Feast of Roses) returns to her native India for a sprawling story of forbidden love set against the backdrop of WWII and the struggle for Indian independence. U.S. Army Capt. Sam Hawthorne comes to the small kingdom of Rudrakot in the Sukh desert of western India, ostensibly to recover from an injury suffered during a rescue mission behind Japanese lines in Burma. Sam has secrets, however. He's a spy, a member of the fledgling OSS, and he's looking for his brother Mike, who disappeared while serving in a local regiment, the Rudrakot Rifles, where "even his name was false." Complicating matters, Sam has a brief but torrid affair with Mila, the daughter of the kingdom's Indian political agent, who is betrothed to the local prince. As Sam plots to free his brother from a nearby detention center, Mila's brother Ashok becomes involved in a nationalist plot to bomb the car of the local British representative in Rudrakot. The myriad subplots and some overwriting detract, but Sundaresan renders Rudrakot vividly and the sympathetic (if doomed) characters generate enough friction to keep the pot boiling. (Sept.)
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"Sundaresan writes in the great tradition of the Indian epic, an art she carries forward with grace and brilliance." --Library Journal --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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A cold moon washed the skies as the single, black caterpillar line of the night train to Rudrakot cleaved through the Sukh desert. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Captain Hawthorne, Victoria Club, Lady Pankhurst, Sam Hawthorne, Lal Bazaar, White Durbar, Father Manning, Colonel Pankhurst, Rudrakot Rifles, Civil Lines, Rudrakot Lancers, British Raj, Amelia Pankhurst, Marianne Westwood, Raja Bhimsen, Third Burma Rangers, British Indian, Month Earlier Somewhere, The Splendor of Silence, Vimal Kumar, Agent Sahib, Colonel Eden, Michael Ridley, Indian Civil Service, General Dyer New!
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