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teen minutes and let him goChristopher sauntered to the back of the wagon without a hand being laid on him. He peered through the bars, in a way no Indian would have been allowed to; we come and go as we like in this country. Theyre used to tourists and foreign residents. Were of no consequence. Christopher, an Australian, enrols at Suryanagar with other foreigners. Among them is Hero, an Armenian from London who claims to be in India only to spin out an inheritance. But her whitewashed room and the study of Sanskrit nouns cannot keep the world at bay for Hero: it pursues her there, in the form of her brother, a romantic nationalist, in India on a mission of his own. At the point at which this novel opens, the brother is awaiting trial for attempted murder. Hero, warding off shock and contrition, sets out on a voyage of discovery, or self-discovery: she cannot be sure of which. And of all possible companions, she chooses Christopher: first for a trial visit to Hyderabad, to take leave of her brother, and then the real thing, the exploration of India beginning from the banks of the sacred Godavari A View from the Bund is a novel of white foreigners in India. It is also an exploration of Western liberal perceptions, not only of India, but also of an individuals place in the world.

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Paperback

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ENGLISH

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• A View from the Bund Published On :

10 May 2015

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