There Where The Pepper Grows
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31/08/2005 |
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The new novel from the author of the acclaimed The Seduction of Silence.
We are sailing down the Hoogly River, inland towards Calcutta. I am a younger man, and I travel with a group of Polish Jewish refugees. Our lives are cheap and our pockets are empty ... I have two women in my life, and they are both on the same boat: one, a Catholic, whom I have loved since I was a little boy, and another, who is Jewish, whom I have married.
I do not know what the future will hold for any of us. I do not know when we will be able to stop wandering...
This is the story of Benjamin, who fled his native Poland during the Nazi occupation, aiming to fulfil his father′s long-held dream of settling in Palestine. But along the way he and his fellow-survivors are stranded in Calcutta, and somehow it becomes inevitable that he will stay...
There, Where the Pepper Grows is the moving story of a family set against the drama of real historical events. It brings East and West together in an unforgettable novel about a search for refuge and a passionate plea for tolerance.
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Critical Praise for
There Where The Pepper Grows
em Le Hunte is, quite simply, a wonderful novelist. Drawing on her own rich background in India and the West, she weaves a dazzling story that carries the scent of spices, and the true sense of other lives. There, Where the Pepper Grows is set amid the gathering darkness of wartime Poland, and the almost unbearable brightness of Calcutta, where a group of Jewish refugees finds an unlikely haven. It is, above all, a love story: one subtle enough to reveal the many ways in which love can be expressed throughout a lifetime.′
-- Geraldine Brooks, author of Year of Wonders and March
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There Where the Pepper Grows
The new novel from the author of the acclaimed The Seduction of Silence We are sailing down the Hoogly River, inland towards Calcutta. I am a younger man, and I travel with a group of Polish Jewish refugees. Our lives are cheap and our pockets are empty ... I have two women in my life,...
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The Seduction of Silence
From a stuffy room in the Spiritualist Church of Great Britain to the breathtaking beauty of the Himalayas, The Seduction of Silence takes us on the spiritual and emotional journeys of five generations of a remarkable Indian family. Aakash was a venerated sage in the Himalayas; in death,...
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