Buy this book on-line KHAN, ISMITH: : THE JUMBIE BIRDLONDON.MACGIBBON & KEE,1961. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,3-colour (b/w+ orange) pictorial artwork to dark green background by Eleanor Meadowcroft, illustrated front panel with orange lettering and orange+white lettering to spine/backstrip,rear panel with author's contemporary monochrome portrait photograph and potted biography; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners,no major nicks or tears present.Top edges lightly toned from light dust-soiling but without any foxing/ spotting,fore-edges brighter and clean, also without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,exceptionally bright and clean,solid and sound, virtually pristine - no foxing to text body - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original speckled dark green cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip, plain white eps with off-set shadowing to verso+recto of respective front+rear free endpapers from dw/dj inner flaps,both hinges solid and sound with no splits or any cracking.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5- 224pp [paginated] includes a prologue,13 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title with precis,and title pages.
Author's debut novel.
This novel is set in Trinidad and is about the family of Kale Khan,a Pathan Indian family,dscendants of indentured workers who came to the island to work the sugar plantations after the abolition of slavery.The story is told through the eyes of Jamini,for whom the pull of his heritage,the land and religion of his fathers,gradually recedes as he grows up in the Trinidad of today.For him there is no return to the past.It is a novel that compels admiration for the way in which it transcends the boundaries of its situation,becoming a statement about humanity that is true of all people and places.
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