Betsy Woodman

Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Meet Jana Bibi, a Scottish woman helping to save the small town in India she has grown to call home and the oddball characters she considers family

Janet Laird's life changed the day she inherited her grandfather's house in a faraway Indian hill station. Ignoring her son's arguments to come grow old in their family castle in Scotland, she moves with her chatty parrot, Mr. Ganguly and her loyal housekeeper, Mary, to Hamara Nagar, where local merchants are philosophers, the chief of police is a tyrant, and a bagpipe-playing Gurkha keeps the wild monkeys at bay. Settling in, Jana Bibi (as she comes to be known) meets her colorful local neighbors-Feroze Ali Khan of Royal Tailors, who struggles with his business and family, V.K. Ramachandran, whose Treasure Emporium is bursting at the seams with objects of unknown provenance, and Rambir, editor of the local newspaper, who burns the midnight oil at his printing press. When word gets out that the town is in danger of being drowned by a government dam, Jana is enlisted to help put it on the map. Hoping to attract tourists with promises of good things to come, she stacks her deck of cards, readies her fine-feathered assistant-and Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes is born.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780805095319
• Artikelnr.: 39551376

Autorenporträt

Betsy Woodman

Rezensionen

"What a charming, engaging, and utterly delightful novel! It takes a writer of enormous talent and heart, to say nothing of spiritual depth, to give us a life-affirming story such as this. I am already impatient to get the next Jana Bibi book, because reading this novel put me in such a good mood¿I might have a t-shirt made up that says, Fire your therapist. Read Betsy Woodman." --Elizabeth Berg, author of Once Upon a Time There Was You and The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted