The village by the sea - Anita Desai - waverly13

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    The village by the sea is a book written by Anita Desai. She was born and educated in India. Her published works include adult novels, two collections of short stories and two books for children. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London and the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. She is a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    
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    This story  is based entirely on fact.Thul is a real village on the western coast of India and all the characters in this book are based on people who live in this village; only their names have been altered.
    
    With their mother ill and their father permanently drunk, Hari and Lila have to earn the money to keep house and look after their two young sisters. In desperation, Hari runs away to Bombay, and Lila is left to cope alone.All Rights Reserved

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Sat, Dec 22, 2018

I don't own this book 
    The village by the sea is a book written by Anita Desai. She was born and educated in India. Her published works include adult novels, two collections of short stories and two books for children. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London and the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. She is a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    
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    This story  is based entirely on fact.Thul is a real village on the western coast of India and all the characters in this book are based on people who live in this village; only their names have been altered.
    
    With their mother ill and their father permanently drunk, Hari and Lila have to earn the money to keep house and look after their two young sisters. In desperation, Hari runs away to Bombay, and Lila is left to cope alone.

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