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The Free Trader's Ghost
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781526200488
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: May 2 2016
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Parvati is a seven-year-old blind girl living in India with an alcoholic father, a prostitute mother, and a sadistic brother. But with two friends her age and a kind Jain to provide support, she manages to survive despite being a Dalit, or Untouchable.
Halfway across the world, Mortimer is an Oxford professor who discovers an old book by the economist Ricardo in a second-hand bookstall. A handwritten poem slipped within the pages catches his attention.
As Parvati struggles to avoid a child molesting sugar lord, Mortimer discovers the poem's author was a First World War British soldier who believed strongly in free trade. Mortimer's investigation into this powerful concept leads him to the book's owner, a doctor named Madeleine with whom he has an immediate connection.
As romance percolates between them, Madeleine heads to India to help a paediatric eye clinic where she sees the country's economic failings firsthand. She invites Mortimer to witness it for himself and thus sets all of these seemingly separate lives on a collision course with destiny that will change them all forever.
Filled with hope and optimism, The Free Trader's Ghost explores a deep connection between humanity, trade, and our innate ability to progress.Also in
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