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Steps in Darkness

โœ Scribed by Krishna Baldev Vaid


Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
1957; 2014
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
75 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
9351186628

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โœฆ Synopsis


Beero lives through a succession of days and events. His father gambles, his mother screams and gets hit by her husband, his sister flirts rather desperately. Beero searches for love and kindness in his strife-torn family. The spare delicacy of Vaid's prose illustrates a child's joy of play in fragile balance with the violence and poverty of his circumstances.


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