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Chronicle of Corpse Bearer
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TextPublication details: New Delhi Aleph Book Company 2012Description: 247pISBN: - 9788192328058
- 813 M67898
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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...
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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...
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