Beggar's feast
Boyagoda, Randy, 1976-2014
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Sam Kandy, born in 1899 in a poor village in the heart of Ceylon and abandoned by his family 10 years later at the gates of a remote temple, resolves to make his own luck amongst the cheats and chancers of the world. When 20 years reckoning with the streets of Colombo, the docks of Sydney and the brothels of Singapore lead Sam back to his blighted birth village, he returns as a steely self-made man. He marries a nobleman's daughter and coldly pursues a life of wealth, prestige, and power. And so begins a devastating chain of events, in which families are torn apart, fortunes are made and lost, and old ways and wants collide with modernity's new machines and money and desires.
Main title:
Beggar's feast / Randy Boyagoda.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2014.
Collation:
310 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Canada: Penguin, 2011.
ISBN:
9780241001547 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
1273453