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BfK No. 59 - November 1989

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base published this month by Macmillan (0 333 51867 5, £7.95). We are grateful to Macmillan for help in using this illustration.

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The Village by the Sea

Anita Desai
 Pearl Padamsee
6 hrs 10 mins, AUDIO BOOK, six cassettes, unabridged
10-14 Middle/Secondary

Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award, this powerful story read by a leading Bombay actress appeals to a wide range of ages and cultures. Hari and Lila are the eldest of a rural Indian family stricken with a sick, malnourished mother and a drunken father. Finally Hari breaks away to Bombay and suffers exploitation in a street cafe in his efforts to make money to take home to his sisters. Meanwhile Lila and her sisters struggle against cruel odds at home - but there is a happy ending. Pearl Padamsee's dramatic performance conveys the full atmosphere of the Indian settings and characters, and the whole is enhanced by occasional Indian music.

Reviewer: 
Rachel Redford
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