Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Penguin Books (2007), Paperback, 263 pages
Description
Set in 18th century Calcutta, the second city of the Empire is teeming with scandalous gossip and rumour. Abravanel Ben Obadiah Ben Aharon Kabariti, Sephardic Jew from Syria and trader in novelties, befriends the British officers and the local elite by day and records their escapades at night.
Physical description
263 p.; 9.2 inches
Language
ISBN
014400108X / 9780144001088