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008			090329s2007 ii a | 000 1 eng
020			_a9780144001088
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050	0	0	_aPR9499.3 _b.B367 2007
100	1		_aBanerjee, Sarnath. _911637
245	1	4	_aThe Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers / _cSarnath Banerjee.
260			_aNew Delhi ; _aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _cc2007.
300			_axvi, 263 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aChiefly stories in graphic novel format.
520			_aSet in the eighteenth-century Calcutta, the second city of the Empire is teeming with scandalous gossip and rumour. Abravanel Ben Obadiah Ben Aharon Kabariti, Sephardic Jew from Syria and trader in novelties such as corsets, aphrodisiacs and zebras, befriends the British officers and the local elite by day and records their escapades by night in a leather-bound journal. 1950s Paris. A battered copy of the journal surfaces in a hole-in-the-wall antique shop in Montmartre. London, 2002. A phone rings in the East End, late at night, announcing a death and an inheritance: a silver lighter, a vintage motorcycle, an ancient radio and The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers. What follows is a bizarre chain of events involving eccentric zamindars, a decadent aristocrat with a passion for lady footballers, a psychic cartographer, a haunted office building and, at the centre of it all, Digital Dutta, neighbourhood historian and keeper of secrets.
650		0	_aGraphic novels. _911638
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