The Last Candles of the Night (ePub)
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After a lifetime in India, Philip returns to Australia, to his estranged wife Jenny, whom he had brought from India fifty years earlier. Philip seeks to establish links with his ex-wife and his grandson amidst the 2001 'Tampa' crisis. Displaced and...
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After a lifetime in India, Philip returns to Australia, to his estranged wife Jenny, whom he had brought from India fifty years earlier. Philip seeks to establish links with his ex-wife and his grandson amidst the 2001 'Tampa' crisis. Displaced and disappointed in his hopes of resuming a career in his own country, Philip is visited by a ghost: Ragini, the young revolutionary he fell in love with in 1948.
Philip is troubled by his unsorted memories of those times. In 1948 India has achieved its independence but the princely state of Hyderabad - the Nizam's Dominions - with its feudal splendours and deep pockets of rural poverty and injustice, totters alone, unwilling to accede to India, fighting Communist insurrection within. Philip, 'the world's youngest headmaster', has been appointed from Australia to a one-teacher school in the distant town of Warangal, a post no Hindu will take. He meets Anand, a Congress Party member working to bring Hyderabad into the Indian Union, and Ragini, the daughter of a landlord and a Communist, who has given away the family lands. A love triangle develops as events sweep them up - events that will return to life and take their toll half a century later.
"The Last Candles of the Night" is a lyrical and moving tale of the pitfalls of memory and the costs of deep allegiance.
Philip is troubled by his unsorted memories of those times. In 1948 India has achieved its independence but the princely state of Hyderabad - the Nizam's Dominions - with its feudal splendours and deep pockets of rural poverty and injustice, totters alone, unwilling to accede to India, fighting Communist insurrection within. Philip, 'the world's youngest headmaster', has been appointed from Australia to a one-teacher school in the distant town of Warangal, a post no Hindu will take. He meets Anand, a Congress Party member working to bring Hyderabad into the Indian Union, and Ragini, the daughter of a landlord and a Communist, who has given away the family lands. A love triangle develops as events sweep them up - events that will return to life and take their toll half a century later.
"The Last Candles of the Night" is a lyrical and moving tale of the pitfalls of memory and the costs of deep allegiance.
Autoren-Porträt von Ian Bedford
Ian Bedford is a Sydney-based writer who has lived and travelled in India, Pakistan, Iran and south Central Asia. He has worked for many years in the Anthropology Department at Macquarie University. "The Last Candles of the Night" is his fourth published novel.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ian Bedford
- 2014, 228 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Golden Orb Creative
- ISBN-10: 1922198137
- ISBN-13: 9781922198136
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.05.2014
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