The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers
by Sarnath Banerjee
Year
1980
ISBN No.
9780144001088
No.of pages
280
Subject
Arts and Creativity
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Eighteenth-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 such as corsets, aphrodisiacs and zebras, befriend the British officers and the elite by day records their escapades by night in a leather-bound journal.
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