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| The Property of Rain | 
 enlarge | Author: Angela Lambert
Publisher: Bantam Press
Category: Book
List Price: £16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1366076
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 347
ISBN: 0593041542
EAN: 9780593041543
ASIN: 0593041542
Publication Date: May 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Very good - carefully read so a very clean and tight copy. Excellent cover condition. Dust wrapper in very good condition with only a few creases. Page condition exactly as printed; probably unread. Pages very clean and nice. Pages tightly bound. Picked, packed and posted within 1 working day by UK seller, available by email for queries. I offer a no questions asked returns and refunds policy on book value if returned within seven days of delivery. I would much rather lose a sale than a customer. (This is in addition to your normal rights as an Amazon customer).
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Powerful February 27, 2008
Persevere with this book. When you start it, you'll think it's going to be yet another "poor-boy-makes-good-meets-poor-girl-and-live-happily-ever-after" type of book. Far from it. It is a powerful novel, well-crafted, and in its exploration of the motives of the human psyche, it is moving yet distressing and deep - not least in Angela Lambert's expose of the cruelty of the Indian Caste system.
A profound, harrowing and beautiful tale. May 28, 2001
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is an ambitious, harrowing novel that will live in your mind long after the last page is turned. At the heart of this book is an act of horrific violence, an inevitable outcome of the violence done to the author's characters by the poverty, cruelty and ignorance in which they live their rural, simple lives. Angela Lambert creates powerful, three-dimensional people from pre-war Suffolk and India and plots their course until they meet in a shocking, horrific encounter. She createstelling contrasts between the futile brutality of rural life in poverty and the transitory beauty that her characters see, feel and create --- contrasts that are powerful and complex, laid skilfully, transparently into the texture of two cultures and societies that are unfamiliar to the reader. That's a great achievement and it makes this book a thought-provoking, moving experience.
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