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The Broken Mirror
β Scribed by Krishna Baldev Vaid
- Book ID
- 111295227
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 418 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9789351186618
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β¦ Synopsis
The story of Beero and his motley group friends is set against the impending partition of India. Beero's passage through adolescence is told through a series of vignettes involving characters who are each more eccentric than the next--wrestler, quack, prostitute; Hindu, Muslim, Sikh. But when partition becomes a reality, in a time of terror and carnage, the insane turn out be the only ones sane.
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