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The growth of modern India captured through the lives and loves of a Calcutta mansion's tenants.

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The ghosts of Kamalini Sengupta's Rajmahal fret and fume over renovations made to the Calcutta mansion as it is sold and divided into six apartments. Even more disturbing is the motley cross-section of fashionable Calcutta society that moves into those apartments....

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Original publication date
2006
Important places
Calcutta, India
First words
The Rajmahal rose in 1910, new, creamy white and crystalline on a prime site on Chowringhee.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Surjeet Shona's spirit is bright and shining, true like the best of metals, forged and tested in the furnace.
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Gordimer, Nadine

Classifications

Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR9499.3 .S259 .T67Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureEnglish literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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Reviews
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Rating
(3.75)
Languages
English
Media
Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
3