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Book, 2011
Current format, Book, 2011, 1st ed., All copies in use.
Book, 2011
Current format, Book, 2011, 1st ed., All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formats
A Suitable BoymeetsGone with the Windin this sweeping, romantic debut novel set on a coffee plantation in Southern India at the turn of the 20 th Century. As the first girl born to the Nachimada family in over sixty years, the beautiful Devi is the object of adoration of her entire family. Strong-willed and confident, she befriends the shy Devanna, a young boy whose mother has died under tragic circumstances. The two quickly become inseparable, until Devi meets Machu the tiger killer, a hunter of great repute, and a man of much honor and pride. Soon, they fall deeply in love, an attraction that drives a wedge between Devi and Devanna. It is this tangled relationship between the three that leads to a devastating tragedy -- an event that changes their fates forever and has unforeseen and far-reaching consequences for generations to come.
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