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Chronicle of a corpse bearer / Cyrus Mistry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mistry, Cyrus, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parsees--India--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Parsees.
- Parsees--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- India.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 247 pages ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Corpse bearer
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Aleph Book Company, 2014.
- Summary:
- Phiroze Elchidana, son of a Parsi priest, falls in love with Sepideh, daughter of an old khandhia, or corpse bearer. In order to marry her, he agrees to join the caste of untouchables that carried the corpses to the Towers of Silence in Bombay.
- Contents:
- One. Present tense : Bombay, 1942
- Two. Echoes of a living past
- Three. Future imperfect.
- ISBN:
- 9789382277354
- 9382277358
- OCLC:
- 969573273
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