A Beggar at the Gate - Softcover

Ali, Thalassa

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ISBN 10: 0553381776 ISBN 13: 9780553381771

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2004

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Set in nineteenth-century British India, Thalassa Ali's dazzling debut, A Singular Hostage, introduced us to Mariana Givens, the Englishwoman who risked everything to save a young Indian orphan from certain death. Now Ali returns to that exotic kingdom beyond the northwestern frontier, where Mariana will come face-to-face with a different destiny.

Two years have passed since Mariana left the walled city of Lahore. But she's unable to forget its haunting scent of roses or her ill-fated marriage to a native-born husband that has scandalized Calcutta society and made her an outcast among the English. Worse still, she bears the knowledge that she will be forced to give up Saboor--the boy believed to be endowed with magical gifts whose life she risked her own to save.

Now Mariana must revisit Lahore to return Saboor to his family and request a divorce from Hassan Ali Khan. But how can she say good-bye to the enigmatic man whose love defied two cultures--or the child she's loved as her own? As political and civil strife threaten to erupt in violence, she seeks answers in a world no Englishwoman has ever seen. And she's driven ever closer to a secret so powerful that it will change her life--and the lives of those she loves--forever.

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Review:

"Ali convincingly captures both Victorian-era Punjabi and British court culture."--Publishers Weekly

Book Description:

Immensely well-informed, intelligent, witty and moving, this is the second in a trilogy from the author of A SINGULAR HOSTAGE: 'Eminenetly readable' MM Kaye

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