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Cinnamon Gardens Hardcover - 1999
by Shyam Selvadurai
In a novel of family honor and destiny that recalls the masterful storytelling of "Raj Quartet, " this tale follows an upper-class teacher facing an arranged marriage, and the uncle who must suppress the secret desires that threaten to throw his life into chaos.
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- Title Cinnamon Gardens
- Author Shyam Selvadurai
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition FIRST EDITION
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hyperion Books, New York
- Date 1999-07-14
- ISBN 9780786864737 / 0786864737
- Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 9.57 x 6.43 x 1.22 in (24.31 x 16.33 x 3.10 cm)
- Ages 18 to 17 years
- Grade levels 13 - 12
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1920's
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Sri Lanka - History - 1505-1948 - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-31277
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 05/15/1999, Page 1643
- Entertainment Weekly, 08/13/1999, Page 71
- Ingram Advance, 07/01/1999, Page 40
- Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/1999, Page 749
- Library Journal, 07/01/1999, Page 136
- New York Times, 07/25/1999, Page 16
- Publishers Weekly, 06/14/1999, Page 48
- School Library Journal, 03/01/2000, Page 265
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New York. 1999. Hyperion. Advance Reader's Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0786864737. 357 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Sri Lanka Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Set in 1920s' Ceylon, during the turbulent closing days of colonial rule, this evocative story of intertwined lives takes us behind the fragrant gardens and polished surfaces of the elite who reside in a wealthy suburb of Colombo to reveal a world of splintered families, conflicted passions, and lives destroyed by class hatred. Annalukshmi, a spirited young schoolteacher, finds herself caught between her family's pressures to marry and her own desire for a more independent life. Then there is her uncle Balendran, whose comfortable life of privilege is rocked by the arrival of Richard, a lover from his past. Their uneasy reunion re-ignites tensions with Balendran's powerful father, and threatens all on which Balendran has built his present life. Sensual, perceptive, and wise, Cinnamon Gardens is a novel of exceptional…
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New York: Hyperion, 1999. Hardcover. 357p., very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Novel set in Ceylon of the 1920s. A strong young woman being forced into an arranged marriage and her secretly gay uncle.
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