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A Flutter in the Colony

Author :  Sandeep Ray

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Country
Singapore
Publisher
Penguin Books (Penguin Random House SEA), Singapore
ISBN 9789815017083
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info viii, 288p.
Product Weight 350 gms.
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In 1956, the Senguptas travel from Calcutta to rural Malaya to start afresh. In their new hamlet of anonymity – a small settlement on the edge of a British rubber plantation – the couple gradually forget their troubled pasts and form new ties. But this second home is not entirely free and gentle. A complex, racially charged society, it is on the brink of independence even as communist insurgents hover on the periphery. How much can a newcomer meddle before it starts to destroy him? Shuttling in time and temper between the politics of a small Malayan town and the anguished years of pre-Partition Bengal, between the Malayan Emergency and Direct Action Day, between indifference and lust, A Flutter in the Colony is a tender, resonant chronicle of a family struggling to remain together in the twilight of Empire in Asia.

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