Sylvia Dyer

Broschiertes Buch

Spell of the Flying Foxes

Beschreibung

"Nostalgic, funny and sad ... true story of a plantation in north Bihar on India's border with Nepal"--P. 4 of cover.

Autor

Sylvia Dyer was born in 1928 and grew up in the wilds of Champaran in north Bihar, on a plantation pioneered as an indigo estate by her great-grandfather, an Englishman. She spent ten years of schooling at St Helen's Convent at Kurseong, Darjeeling, was married twice, and widowed both times, to Indian Army officers. There were two sons from her first marriage and a daughter from the second. She now lives in Pune and her two surviving children have settled abroad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9780143065340
• ISBN-10: 0143065343
• Artikelnr.: 42359997