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'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Dover Publications: July 1997

Seller ID: 270662

ISBN: 0486299910

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Sixof the Roaring Twenties chronicler's most scintillating short stories, chosen from Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922). This inexpensive volume comprises "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Ice Palace," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "May Day," "The Jelly-Bean," and "The Offshore Pirate." Publisher's Note."
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16 Categories of Desire

By: Douglas Glover

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions: November 2000

Seller ID: 137854

ISBN: 0864923147

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Douglas Glover's collection of stories mezmerizes like no other. A sheer tour-de-force, the collection features eleven new stories that demonstrate that Glover is capable of writing like no other writer. Like a good Beatles album, the collection includes Glover's best new stories, linked only by the quality of the writing. The stories are wide ranging examples of fine, often comic, writing.

"The Left Ladies Club" is about a man who leaves teaching to become a writer, giving himself licence to live the bohemian life. In Glover's merciless portrayal, the Ragged Point literary scene cons...
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1959: A Novel

By: Davis, Thulani

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Grove Press: September 2001

Seller ID: 276207

ISBN: 0802138314

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Thulani Davis's 1959 is a powerful, poignant coming-of-age novel that captures a dramatic moment in American history as clearly as a photograph. It's the summer of 1959 and Willie Tarrant of Turner, Virginia, is twelve. Her father and other adults in the town are worried about integration -- how it will affect their children's safety and the quality of their education -- but for Willie it's just another problem she's going to have to deal with, like her chores and beginning to go out with boys. Willie and her friends -- kids from good families with good grades -- are being groomed to be sent i...
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2017: A Novel

By: Olga Slavnikova

Price: $27.95

Publisher: Overlook Hardcover: March 2010

Seller ID: 3312

ISBN: 1590203097

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

In the year 2017 in Russia-exactly 100 years after the revolution-poets and writers are obsolete, class distinctions are painfully sharp, and spirits intervene in the lives of humans from their home high in the mythical Riphean Mountains. Professor Anfilogov, a wealthy and emotionless man, sets out on an expedition to unearth priceless rubies that no one else has been able to locate. Young Krylov, a talented gem cutter who Anfilogov had taken under his wing, is seeing off his mentor at the train station when he is drawn to a mysterious stranger who calls herself Tanya. A scandalous affair ensu...
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2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America

By: Albert Brooks

Price: $4.98

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: April 2012

Seller ID: 72748

ISBN: 0312591292

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Is this what's in store?

June 12, 2030 started out like any other day in memory--and by then, memories were long. Since cancer had been cured fifteen years before, America's population was aging rapidly. That sounds like good news, but consider this: millions of baby boomers, with a big natural predator picked off, were sucking dry benefits and resources that were never meant to hold them into their eighties and beyond. Young people around the country simmered with resentment toward "the olds" and anger at the treadmill they could never get off of just to maintain their parents' entit...
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2666: A Novel

By: Bola?o, Roberto

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Picador: August 2009

Seller ID: 198737

ISBN: 0312429215

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008
Time Magazine's Best Book of 2008
Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2008
San Francisco Chronicle's 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008
Seattle Times Best Books of 2008
New York Magazine Top Ten Books of 2008

Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment;...
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3 by Eastlake, The Early Fiction: Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses / Go in Beauty / The Bronc People

By: William Eastlake

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Touchstone: April 1970

Seller ID: 170530

ISBN: 0671206427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

4 3 2 1: A Novel

By: Paul Auster

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.: January 2017

Seller ID: 236121

ISBN: 1627794468

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Minimal water damage on the first ~20 pages, otherwise clean copy in good condition
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A Bend in the River (Vintage International)

By: V.S. Naipaul

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Vintage: March 1989

Seller ID: 225688

ISBN: 0679722025

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man--an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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A Bit on the Side

By: Trevor, William

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): September 2005

Seller ID: 244555

ISBN: 0143035916

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.

In these twelve stories, a waiter divulges a shocking life of crime to his ex-wife; a woman repeats the story of her parents' unstable marriage after a horrible tragedy; a schoolgirl regrets gossiping about the cuckolded man who tutors her; and, in the volume's title story, a middle-aged accountant offers his reasons for ending a love affair. At the heart of this stunning collection is Trevor's characteristic tenderness and unflinching eye for both the humanizing and dehumanizing aspects of modern urban and rural life.
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A Bit on the Side

By: Trevor, William

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): September 2005

Seller ID: 276478

ISBN: 0143035916

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.

A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh (the Civil War in the West)

By: Shaara, Jeff

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Ballantine Books: April 2013

Seller ID: 287544

ISBN: 0345527364

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

" An] exciting read . . . Jeff] Shaara returns to the U.S. Civil War in this first book of a new trilogy. . . . This novel is meticulously researched and brings a vivid reality to the historical events depicted."--Library Journal

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Spring 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse. General Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to abandon the critical city of Nashville and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: Ulysses Gr...
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A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel

By: James, Marlon

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Riverhead Trade: October 2015

Seller ID: 276279

ISBN: 1594633940

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Winner of the Man Booker Prize

One of the Top 10 Books - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

A "thrilling, ambitious . . . intense" (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf

In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill at characterization and his meticulous eye for detail to forge a novel of dazzling ambition and scope.

On December 3, 1976, just befo...
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A Catalog of Birds

By: Laura Harrington

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Europa Editions: July 2017

Seller ID: 132771

ISBN: 1609454030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It's 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the only survivor when his helicopter is shot down.

A wounded Billy returns home to his family in upstate New York, especially to Nell, his adoring younger sister. In his absence, the woman he loves has mysteriously disappeared. His wounds have crippled his ability to even hold a pencil and his hearing loss has cut him off from the natural world. Nell, a brill...
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A Coast of Trees

By: Ammons, A. R.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: December 2002

Seller ID: 280491

ISBN: 0393324109

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The book is an achievement fully comparable to his Uplands and Briefings. Among the poems likely to assume a permanent place in the Ammonsian (and American) canon are the majestic title lyric and 'Swells, ' 'Easter Morning, ' 'Keepsake, ' 'Givings, ' and 'Persistences.' Again Ammons has confirmed his vital continuities with the central Whitmanian tradition of our poetry, and his crucial place in that panoply."
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A Common Life: The Wedding Story (The Mitford Years #6)

By: Jan Karon

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Penguin Books: March 2002

Seller ID: 264887

ISBN: 0142000345

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Laughter and wedding bells ring as #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon takes her millions of fans behind the scenes of the most cherished event in Mitford history.

Mitford's Lord's Chapel is the home to the most joyful event in years: the wedding of Father Tim Kavanagh and Cynthia Coppersmith. Here at last is A Common Life, and the long-awaited answers to these deeply probing questions: Will Father Tim fall apart when he takes his vows? Will Cynthia make it to the church on time? Who will arrange the flowers and bake the wedding cake? And wi...
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)

By: Toole, John Kennedy

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Grove Press: September 1987

Seller ID: 161965

ISBN: 0802130208

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)

By: Toole, John Kennedy

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Grove Press: September 1987

Seller ID: 223974

ISBN: 0802130208

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)

By: Toole, John Kennedy

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Grove Press: September 1987

Seller ID: 242511

ISBN: 0802130208

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)

By: Toole, John Kennedy

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Grove Press: September 1987

Seller ID: 257177

ISBN: 0802130208

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)

By: Toole, John Kennedy

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Grove Press: September 1987

Seller ID: 272988

ISBN: 0802130208

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)

By: Toole, John Kennedy

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Grove Press: September 1987

Seller ID: 279582

ISBN: 0802130208

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel

By: Anthony Marra

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Hogarth: February 2014

Seller ID: 154656

ISBN: 0770436420

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

In a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night and then set fire to her home. When their lifelong neighbor Akhmed finds Havaa hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded.

For Sonja, the arrival of Akhmed and Havaa is an unwelcome surprise. Weary and overburd...
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A Country of Our Own (Civil War at Sea)

By: David Poyer

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: July 2005

Seller ID: 183533

ISBN: 0671047418

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

We first met Lt. Ker Custis Claiborne, formerly of the United States Navy, in Fire on the Waters. Claiborne is no admirer of slavery. But he's a Virginian, joining the fledgling Confederate States Navy in 1861. After fighting along the Potomac with the Army of Virginia, Ker and his mentor, Captain Parker Trezevant, burn, sink, and destroy across the Caribbean to undermine the Union and force a truce favorable to the Confederacy.
But when their first cruiser proves too slow and small, Ker joins Commander James Bullock in London to buy or build a ship of war that can sweep Ya...
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A Darcy Christmas: A Holiday Tribute to Jane Austen

By: Amanda Grange,Sharon Lathan,Carolyn Eberhart

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark: October 2010

Seller ID: 240519

ISBN: 1402243391

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Wish You a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Share in the magic of the season in these three warm and wonderful holiday novellas from bestselling authors.

Christmas Present by Amanda Grange
A Darcy Christmas by Sharon Lathan
Mr. Darcy's Christmas Carol by Carolyn Eberhart

Celebrate the 80th birthday of Regency Romance with great books from Sourcebooks Casablanca

Praise for Amanda Grange:
"Amanda Grange is a writer who tells an engaging, thoroughly enjoyable story "-Romance Reader at Heart
"A...
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A Date with the Other Side

By: Erin McCarthy

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Berkley Trade: May 2005

Seller ID: 30949

ISBN: 0425202674

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From the wildly popular author of Heiress for Hire and Bad Boys Online comes a high-spirited novel about meeting a man who seems all wrong--but who can make a woman feel oh-so-right.
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A Day For Heroes

By: Ryan R Danescu II

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Creations & Variations, LLC: December 2012

Seller ID: 134742

ISBN: 0988906201

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta

By: Paul Theroux

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Mariner Books: January 2011

Seller ID: 25262

ISBN: 0547394497

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer's block (his "dead hand"), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy, found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How and why did he die? And what is Jerry to make of a patch of carpet, and a package containing a human hand?
He is swiftly captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Mrs. Unger--and revived by her tantric massages--but the circumstances surrounding the dead boy cause him increasingly to doubt the ...
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A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta

By: Paul Theroux

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Mariner Books: January 2011

Seller ID: 91276

ISBN: 0547394497

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta

By: Paul Theroux

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Mariner Books: January 2011

Seller ID: 118545

ISBN: 0547394497

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel

By: Ken Kalfus

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Harper Perennial: December 2006

Seller ID: 61304

ISBN: 0060501413

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11--and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation's public calamities have encroached upon our most private illusions.

A Diving Rock on the Hudson: Mercy of a Rude Stream Volume 2 (Roth, Henry//Mercy of a Rude Stream)

By: Henry Roth

Price: $7.95

Publisher: St Martins Pr: February 1995

Seller ID: 177672

ISBN: 0312117779

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Division of Spoils (Repr of 1975 Ed) (Raj Quartet/Paul Scott, 4) (Phoenix Fiction)

By: Paul Scott

Price: $6.98

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: May 1998

Seller ID: 238016

ISBN: 0226743446

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

After exploiting India's divisions for years, the British depart in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, A Division of the Spoils illuminates one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India.

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A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Scribner: July 2014

Seller ID: 287810

ISBN: 1476764522

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: "Fascinating...serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author's process" (The New York Times).

Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors ...
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A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (NYRB Classics)

By: Bedford, Sybille

Price: $9.98

Publisher: NYRB Classics: July 2017

Seller ID: 209481

ISBN: 1681370565

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian prince and makes her home in Rome; her daughter Constanza, the favorite of the title, inherits her mother's beauty, intelligence, and wealth, along with her father's Catholicism, which she soon rejects.

When disaster strikes, Anna and the prince fall back on the standards of behavior ...
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A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (NYRB Classics)

By: Bedford, Sybille

Price: $11.98

Publisher: NYRB Classics: July 2017

Seller ID: 284438

ISBN: 1681370565

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

When disaster strikes, Anna and the prince fall back on the standards of behavior ...
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A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel

By: Sigrid Nunez

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Picador: December 2005

Seller ID: 248695

ISBN: 0312422733

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love

A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a s...
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A Fictional History of the United States (with Huge Chunks Missing)

By: N/A

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Akashic Books: August 2006

Seller ID: 20826

ISBN: 193335402X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"This is a 'people's history' with tongue in cheek, delightfully funny, imaginative, but with a subtle undertone of seriousness. I enjoyed it immensely."
--HOWARD ZINN, author of A People's History of the United States

Original stories & artwork by:
Daniel Alarcon, Amy Bloom, Kate Bornstein, Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Keith Knight, Ron Kovic, Paul La Farge, Felicia Luna Lemus, Adam Mansbach, Valerie Miner, Tommy O'Malley, Neal Pollack, David Rees, Sarah Schulman, Darin Strauss, and Benjamin Weissman.

History is distorted the moment it's recorded--and in these pol...
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A Field Guide to the North American Family: An Illustrated Novella

By: Garth Risk Hallberg

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Knopf: October 2017

Seller ID: 146610

ISBN: 1101874953

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The very first work of fiction by the best-selling, acclaimed author of City on Fire--his piercingly beautiful treasure box of a novella about two families in the suburbs, now in a newly designed full-color edition

For years, the Hungates and the Harrisons have coexisted peacefully in the same Long Island neighborhood, enjoying the pleasures and weathering the pitfalls of their suburban habitat. But when the patriarch of one family dies unexpectedly, the survivors face a stark imperative: adapt or face extinction. In sixty-three interlinked vignettes and striking accompanying...
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A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Mistry, Rohinton

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Vintage: November 2001

Seller ID: 269809

ISBN: 140003065X

Condition: New

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.

As the characters move fro...
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