The crow eaters
Sidhwa, Bapsi2015
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Faredoon (Freddie) Junglewalla is either the jewel of the Parsi community or a murdering scoundrel. Freddie's mother-in-law, Jerbanoo, thinks he is planning to do away with her, but Freddie has always been a pragmatist: if the old woman were to die (be murdered?) the body would have to be placed on the open-roofed Towers of Silence, in keeping with custom, and that would never do. Insurance fraud and arson, however, are well within Freddie's repertoire, in fact he thinks he has invented the idea, so advanced is it for India, in 1901. As his skills grow he becomes a man of consequence among the Parsis, with people travelling thousands of miles to see him in Lahore, especially if they wish to escape tight spots they have got themselves into.
Main title:
The crow eaters / Bapsi Sidhwa ;with a foreword by Fatima Bhutto.
Author:
Sidhwa, Bapsi, author
Imprint:
London : Daunt Books , 2015.
Collation:
290 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9781907970610 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FGAF
Local class:
FICAFPBK
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3144545