false 210820 7 <p> Switching seamlessly between the chaos and bloodshed of 1940s India and the multicultural mélange of twenty-first-century Britain, Glen Duncan's sublime new novel finds love in both. </p> <p> Ross Monroe is a boxing railwayman with a weakness for get-rich-quick schemes. Kate Lyle is a headstrong young woman desperate to escape a sexually predatory household. Both are Anglo-Indians, members of a race that helped turn the wheels of Empire for years. But Empire days are numbered, and as India sheds its colonial skin, the young lovers must face their own tryst with destiny. </p> <p> In twenty-first-century England, Owen Monroe is writing this story of his parents' lives in an effort to avoid the problems in his own: lost love, relentless libido, dreams of death, and a world full of headlines he can't understand and doesn't want to. But keeping past and present apart isn't as easy as it seems, and before long Owen is deep in the one story he never wanted to tell.... </p> <p> Epic in its scope yet never losing sight of the telling, gorgeous detail, <i>The Bloodstone Papers</i> is an extraordinarily rich and beautiful read that manages to ask the big questions without fuss and to accept that the big answers aren't always what we want to hear. </p> 2816133 2006 The Bloodstone Papers total:32|5:5|4:9|3:7|2:7|1:4| 32 100 78 9 3 0 false false Tue Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 23:07:32 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 15:02:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 20:42:23 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 06:27:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 06 11:28:42 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 11:29:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 15:06:22 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 15:06:55 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 20:45:41 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 20:46:39 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 11:59:15 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 06:25:18 -0700 2008 Death of an Ordinary Man, or I, Lucifer before this one, all of which I think are pretty fantastic.

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