Chronicle of Corpse Bearer
Mistry, Cyrus
Chronicle of Corpse Bearer - New Delhi Aleph Book Company 2012 - 247p
includes index and biblioraphy
At the very edge of its many interlocking worlds, the city of Bombay conceals a near invisible community of Parsi corpse bearers, the khandhias, whose job ti is to carry bodies of the deceased to the towers of silence. Ostracized by society, often wretchedly poor, theirs is a lot that nobody would willingly espouse. Yet, that`s exactly what Phiroz Elchidana, son of a revered Parsi priest, does when he falls in love with Sepideh, the daughter of an ageing khandhia...
9788192328058 495
813 / M67898
Chronicle of Corpse Bearer - New Delhi Aleph Book Company 2012 - 247p
includes index and biblioraphy
At the very edge of its many interlocking worlds, the city of Bombay conceals a near invisible community of Parsi corpse bearers, the khandhias, whose job ti is to carry bodies of the deceased to the towers of silence. Ostracized by society, often wretchedly poor, theirs is a lot that nobody would willingly espouse. Yet, that`s exactly what Phiroz Elchidana, son of a revered Parsi priest, does when he falls in love with Sepideh, the daughter of an ageing khandhia...
9788192328058 495
813 / M67898