A Beggar at the Gate
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    Oct-2004
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    Print / eBook
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  • Main Genre:
    Romance
  • Time Period:
    British India
  • Pages:
    320
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Set in nineteenth-century British India, Thalassa Ali's dazzling debut, A Singular Hostage, introduced us to Mariana Givens, the Englishwoman who risked everything to save a young Indian orphan from certain death. Now Ali returns to that exotic kingdom beyond the northwestern frontier, where Mariana will come face-to-face with a different destiny.

Two years have passed since Mariana left the walled city of Lahore. But she's unable to forget its haunting scent of roses or her ill-fated marriage to a native-born husband that has scandalized Calcutta society and made her an outcast among the English. Worse still, she bears the knowledge that she will be forced to give up Saboor--the boy believed to be endowed with magical gifts whose life she risked her own to save.

Now Mariana must revisit Lahore to return Saboor to his family and request a divorce from Hassan Ali Khan. But how can she say good-bye to the enigmatic man whose love defied two cultures--or the child she's loved as her own? As political and civil strife threaten to erupt in violence, she seeks answers in a world no Englishwoman has ever seen. And she's driven ever closer to a secret so powerful that it will change her life--and the lives of those she loves--forever.
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Oct-2004
    • Bantam
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0553381776
    • ISBN13: 9780553381771
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    • Aug-2008
    • Bantam
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0553584170
    • ISBN13: 9780553584172
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    • Dec-2008
    • Bantam
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307482111
    • ISBN13: 9780307482112



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