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The Tea Planter’s Son

The Tea Planter’s Son

The Tea Planter's Son

Jimmy Pyke

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Partridge Publishing
Año de edición:
2014
Materia
Sagas
ISBN:
9781482819755

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In 1939, a young Englishman rejects a diplomatic career and leaves England to become a tea planter in Darjeeling, India. He marries an illiterate tea picker of Nepali origin and they have a son.The book continues with the son’s journey through life: the prejudices he faces as an Anglo-Indian in both countries; the events in Belize, Burma, Jamaica and Sri Lanka that affect him; the women in his life; all answering the question, “what became of him?”Jimmy Pyke is an Anglo-Indian who had a distinguished legal career in London for over 45 years. He has written law books, but The Tea Planter’s Son is his debut novel at the age of seventy.

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