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(0)Tania Malik
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
By the banks of the River Yamuna is northern India, where rice paddies of basmati merge into fields of sugarcane, twelve-year-old Madan lives with his impoverished family in the town of Gorapur. His father works for Avtaar Singh, a powerful and controlling man, and Madan's sharp mind and determination catch Singh's attention. When his father's misdeeds jeopardize his sister's life, Madan strikes his first bargain with Avtaar Singh to save her. Drawn...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Riya works for Discover Arabia, a rinky-dink tour guide company in the far-flung desert outpost of Dubai. It's 1990, and the city's iconic skyline, along with its global reputation, remains but a gleam in developers' eyes. For twenty-five year-old Riya, Dubai is a desert purgatory that spreads out between her family back home in India, and an as-yet-defined future ahead of her. If she belongs to anything, it is to the city's transient underclass...