An Outline of the Republic: A Novel
Intrigued by a disturbing photograph of a woman, a young journalist in Calcutta embarks on a quest to learn the story behind the violent incident captured on film — a strange odyssey that leads him to a volatile remote corner of India mired in civil strife and sustained by timber, drugs, and...
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Intrigued by a disturbing photograph of a woman, a young journalist in Calcutta embarks on a quest to learn the story behind the violent incident captured on film — a strange odyssey that leads him to a volatile remote corner of India mired in civil strife and sustained by timber, drugs, and guns. Yet the truth he hopes to uncover is as uncertain as the mysterious woman he seeks, smoldering dangerously on the border between illusion and reality.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060501570 (006050157X)
Publish date: March 14th 2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Amrit is a youngish Calcutta journalist, a non-religious Sikh, sent on an assignment to the far reaches of India, a lawless place where Burma, China and India lose definition in a murky no man’s land. Amrit is trying to track down the story behind a photograph of a woman held captive by a terrorist ...
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