![]() Inspired by a historical figure, an exhilarating debut novel about the first native of the Indian subcontinent to arrive in Colonial America-for readers of Esi Edugyan and Yaa Gyasi. A vivid, coming-of-age story, THE EAST INDIAN has all the Dickensian elements to make this novel a bona fide classic, and it comes out on May 2. And, much to the reader's delight, his entire life is rich with hijinks and humor-to balance out the tragedy of it all. Despite his position in life, Tony is sustained by the relationships he forms while on the plantation. That is until he’s kidnapped and taken to colonial Virginia where he’s forced into indentured servitude, working tobacco fields for a series of cruel masters. Left alone, a family friend secures him passage to London where he finds work on the docks and spends his free time watching performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Tony is only eleven when his mother dies in their native India. debut so Dickensian is the picaresque journey of her main character. ![]() ![]() The author is a Shakespeare scholar herself, but what makes her U.S. ![]() It makes sense that Brinda Charry’s THE EAST INDIAN is such an achievement worthy of comparison to literary greats. ![]()
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