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The Vicks Mango Tree
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The Vicks Mango Tree is the story of the tiny fictional region of Mangobaag -- and India -- as she limps through twenty-one months of suspended civil liberties half-hearted revolts and stern censorships. It is also the tale of Teacher Bhatt Rabia Sheik and Shankar Iyer ordinary people in pursuit of their middle-class dreams and local legends like Maharaja Muneer Shah Paper Backs Myna and Dr Abid Ali who live and die in the dying light of a glorious past.
Full of odd characters and piquant situations and alive with the politics and possibilities of a not-so-long-ago time in India's history The Vicks Mango Tree is a compelling first novel.
>The Vicks Mango TreeSalim AneesHARPER INDIA9789350291412