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Beggar's feast / Randy Boyagoda.

Summary:

"A novel about a man who lives in defiance of fate. Sam Kandy was born in 1899 to low prospects in a Ceylon village and died one hundred years later as the wealthy headman of the same village, a self-made shipping magnate and father of sixteen, three times married and twice widowed. This is a novel about family, pride, and ambition..."--Publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780670065639 :
  • Physical Description: 311 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Viking Canada, 2010.
Subject: Kandy, Sam, 1899-1999 > Fiction.
Patriarchy > Fiction.
Ambition > Fiction.
Families > Sri Lanka > Fiction.
Entrepreneurship > Fiction.
Conduct of life > Fiction.
Sri Lankans > Fiction.
Sri Lanka > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Sri Lanka > Fiction.
Genre: Canadian fiction.
Literary fiction.

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