The Coffer Dams

The Coffer Dams
KAMALA MARKANDAYA
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 304pg
30 Sep 2020 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781913109028
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Clinton, founder and head of a firm of international engineers, arrives in India to build a dam, bringing with him his young wife, Helen, and a strong team of aides and skilled men. They are faced with a formidable challenge, which involves working in daunting mountain and jungle terrain, within a time schedule dictated by the extreme tropical weather. Setbacks occur which bring into focus fundamental differences in the attitudes to life and death of the British bosses and the Indian workers. A timely reminder of the British contempt for Indian lives and for nature.
' An absorbing tale about mechanical strength and spiritual weakness, physical certainties and moral doubts. It is set in modern India, but the conflict of values at its heart is universal' John Masters, author, Bhowani Junction
Kamala Markandaya (1924 - 2004) was born in Mysore, India. She studied history at Madras University and later worked for a small progressive magazine before moving to London in 1948 in pursuit of a career in journalism. There she began writing her novels; Nectar in a Sieve, her first novel published in 1954, was in international best-seller. Reviewing the republication of The Nowhere Man in 2019, Booker prize-winner Bernadine Evaristo wrote; ' For the last 20 years of her life, Kamala Markandaya couldn' t get published and went out of print. Generations of readers lost out in reading this gem. Now I hope it will find its place in literary history. '
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781913109028
Published: 30 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Small Axes
Publisher: HopeRoad Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 304

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