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Bamba Beach
Hari's family are fisher folk, but times are hard - there are no fish left in their bay and to catch the ones further out they need a flat-bottomed boat with an outboard motor, not a rickety, coconut-wood vessel. But to get capital for a new boat, they need to sell fish.
79 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2009
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Pratima Mitchell
59 books5 followersPratima Mitchell was born in India and studied in Delhi, London and the United States. She comes from a family of authors and made her debut as an author at the age of eleven. She has worked as a journalist, editor, waitress and teacher. Nowadays she lives in Oxford (UK).
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December 21, 2021
A 2021 reprint, ISBN 9781472989987
A very pleasing narrative, this has as its lead a young boy of poor parents in a village in Goa, India. There's been a beef with the neighbours, and the man there has inherited money from the old woman the whole village calls a witch, and had the audacity to turn it into a fortune. So even if the one household has a friendly, intelligent young man, full of dreams of this job, that career and every kind of little success to help his parents out, he wouldn't be seen dead talking to, or helping, the richer family with their three young daughters. Until something forces his hand, to the extent the families might just unite in friendship. The story that results could have been twee, or poverty porn, or anything else similarly disagreeable. Instead it's really rather rich, and very strong on mood and a sense of place, making it exotic yet completely relatable. For every young reader with pipe dreams of some kind of entrepreneurial success for him or herself, this comes as a pleasant treat of a read.
A very pleasing narrative, this has as its lead a young boy of poor parents in a village in Goa, India. There's been a beef with the neighbours, and the man there has inherited money from the old woman the whole village calls a witch, and had the audacity to turn it into a fortune. So even if the one household has a friendly, intelligent young man, full of dreams of this job, that career and every kind of little success to help his parents out, he wouldn't be seen dead talking to, or helping, the richer family with their three young daughters. Until something forces his hand, to the extent the families might just unite in friendship. The story that results could have been twee, or poverty porn, or anything else similarly disagreeable. Instead it's really rather rich, and very strong on mood and a sense of place, making it exotic yet completely relatable. For every young reader with pipe dreams of some kind of entrepreneurial success for him or herself, this comes as a pleasant treat of a read.
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