| A Beggar at the Gate Contributor(s): Ali, Thalassa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553584170 ISBN-13: 9780553584172 Publisher: Bantam OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: Nineteenth-century British India comes alive in this captivating sequel to "A Singular Hostage," as Englishwoman Mariana Givens travels beyond the northwestern frontier of the British Empire to a world of richness and remote dangers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Romance - Multicultural & Interracial |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1040 |
| Series: Mariana Givens |
| Physical Information: 1.15" H x 4.17" W x 6.99" (0.46 lbs) 416 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 87227 Reading Level: 6.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Set in nineteenth-century British India, Thalassa Ali's dazzling debut, A Singular Hostage, introduced us to Mariana Givens, the Englishwoman who risked everything to save a young Indian orphan from certain death. Now Ali returns to that exotic kingdom beyond the northwestern frontier, where Mariana will come face-to-face with a different destiny. Two years have passed since Mariana left the walled city of Lahore. But she's unable to forget its haunting scent of roses or her ill-fated marriage to a native-born husband that has scandalized Calcutta society and made her an outcast among the English. Worse still, she bears the knowledge that she will be forced to give up Saboor--the boy believed to be endowed with magical gifts whose life she risked her own to save. Now Mariana must revisit Lahore to return Saboor to his family and request a divorce from Hassan Ali Khan. But how can she say good-bye to the enigmatic man whose love defied two cultures--or the child she's loved as her own? As political and civil strife threaten to erupt in violence, she seeks answers in a world no Englishwoman has ever seen. And she's driven ever closer to a secret so powerful that it will change her life--and the lives of those she loves--forever. |