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The Assassin's Song

Having left India as a teenager after refusing to succeed his father as the lord of a Sufi shrine, Karsan Dargawalla attended Harvard and became a professor living in British Columbia, until dual tragedies sends him back to India to come to terms with his heritage.

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  • "Having left India as a teenager after refusing to succeed his father as the lord of a Sufi shrine, Karsan Dargawalla attended Harvard and became a professor living in British Columbia, until dual tragedies sends him back to India to come to terms with his heritage."
  • "Having left India as a teenager after refusing to succeed his father as the lord of a Sufi shrine, Karsan Dargawalla attended Harvard and became a professor living in British Columbia, until dual tragedies sends him back to India to come to terms with his heritage."@en
  • "Destined to be the keeper of a Sufi shrine in a village in Western India in the 1960s, a young man longs for more - and less. When he applies to, and is accepted by, Harvard, his life changes. But not forever. The author has twice won the Giller Prize."@en
  • "In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag -- the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi -- begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to assume lordship of the shrine, but he longs to be "just ordinary." Despite his father's pleas, Karsan leaves home behind for Harvard, and, eventually, marriage and a career. Not until tragedy strikes, both in Karsan's adopted home in Canada and in Pirbaag, is he drawn back across thirty years of separation and silence to discover what, if anything, is left for him in India."@en
  • "This novel traces the path of Karsan Dargawalla, who is brought up, as generations of his forefathers have been, to be the "gaadi-varas, the successor and avatar" of a seven-hundred-year-old Sufi shrine in Gujarat, a mausoleum of Muslim origin but for centuries open to all religions."@en
  • "On the life of a sufi boy who is describing social conditions of Gujarat, India."
  • "A story of grand historical sweep and intricate personal drama, a stunning evocation of the physical and emotional landscape of a man caught between filial obligation and personal yearning, between the ancient and the modern."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@tr
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "History"@en
  • "Hindi fiction"

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  • "The Assassin's Song"@en
  • "Qātila kā gīta : Gujarāta ke badalate hālāta ko bayāṃ karatā upanyāsa"
  • "The assassin's song"@en
  • "The assassin's song"
  • "The Assassin's song"@en
  • "Suikastçının şarkısı"@tr
  • "Il giardino di Dio"
  • "Il giardino di dio"@it

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