The Tower Of Silence

The Tower Of Silence  (English, Paperback, Prakash Gyan)

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    • Language: English
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
    • Genre: Fiction
    • ISBN: 9789350296370, 9350296373
    • Pages: 248
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    A long-lost Sexton Blake mystery, 1920s detective fiction at its best Historian Gyan Prakash of Princeton University stumbled upon part of the unpublished manuscript of Tower of Silence by Phiroshaw Jamsetjee Chevalier (or Chaiwala, as he called himself) in the British Library. After scouring several Mumbai libraries, he found the missing pages. It is a thrilling tale that begins on a blistering April afternoon in Poona with the click of a camera shutter. An aerial photograph is taken from a small aircraft flying directly over the Tower of Silence. The Zorastrian community is thrown into turmoil and horrified grief at this heinous act. Beram, a suave wealthy man who drives around in a Rolls Royce but is a devout Parsi, decides to exact revenge. Thus begins a sensational cat-and-mouse game between Beram and Sexton Blake, England's most famous detective.
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    • 10 mm
    Height
    • 200 mm
    Length
    • 130 mm
    Weight
    • 187 gr
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    • GYAN PRAKASH is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of Bonded Histories (Cambridge) and Another Reason (Princeton).
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    An interesting book that brings alive the lives of Parsees during the British Raj!

    The book was quite interesting. It's set in the 1920s and the language is quite different from that of today. Bombay and Poona are cases in point.

    I got to know a lot of things about Parsees that I had been quite unaware of. You can be sure that it is all correct as the author is a Parsee himself. Quite fascinating!

    Beram and Sexton Blake are the main characters in this book and they really stand out. I believe Sexton Blake is a character who appears in the works of many authors while Bera...
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    Sundari Venkatraman

    Dec, 2013

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    a quest

    a very interesting read,
    to me the book came in two quests, one by the author in his manuscript, the story is a detective novel written about a vehemently private community. Set in the then contemporary but today forgotten India.
    The other is the quest of the editor for the author.
    I don't want to place any spoilers, but a perfect book with chai, bhajji, and rains.
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    Jun, 2013

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