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The Age of Elephants
The Age of Elephants
Author: Peter Moss
?The filaments that enmeshed them in Durbar Court were the stories they wove. Leila, who never contributed any herself, claimed that without them the resident behemoths would fall permanently asleep. It was a soporific summer. An extraordinary summer, as if the mechanism of the seasons had broken down, stranding them in a time locked vaul...  more » This second novel by Peter Moss, whose first, The Singing Tree, was described by the New York Times as ?a little gem?, draws heavily upon his memories of an Indian childhood to populate a recreated cameo of imperial India, set on the south coast of England. Here relics of the British Raj, living out their sequestered lives immersed in nostalgia for a long lost world, lead a casual visitor to confront memories he has desperately endeavoured to erase.
ISBN-13: 9780595395965
ISBN-10: 0595395961
Publication Date: 6/27/2006
Pages: 268
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Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Book Type: Paperback
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