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Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Fiction - Ghost
Retail Price: $13.95
Pages: 112
This beloved cult novel―about a young man who makes a business of relaying messages from the dead―is now in a sparkling English translation
Poor, poor, hard-luck Herbert Sarkar: born into a fancy Calcutta family but cursed from birth (his philandering movie director father is killed in a car crash and his mother dies soon after, when he’s still just a baby), he is taken as an orphan into his uncle’s house, only to fall further and further down the family totem pole. Despite good looks (“Hollywood-ish, Leslie Howard-ish)” and native talents, he is scorned by all but his kind aunt. Poor Herbert: so lovable but so little loved. Cheated of his inheritance, living on the roof in cast-off clothing, he pines for love, but all is woe: his own nephews beat him up.