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ISBN10: 0979018870
ISBN13: 9780979018879
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Published: Sep 27 2011
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.60 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Awards: IndieFab awards
ISBN13: 9780979018879
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Published: Sep 27 2011
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.60 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Awards: IndieFab awards
For fans of Dr. Zhivago and Heart of Darkness, a spellbinding debut novel following the unlikely relationship between a Victorian woman and her young Tamil Indian servant as they defy convention, class, and heartbreak to investigate what is gained--and lost--by holding life still
In colonial India, at a time of growing friction between the ruling British and the restless Indian populace, a Victorian woman and her young Tamil Indian servant defy convention, class, and heartbreak to investigate what is gained--and lost--by holding life still. Suggested by the life and work of photographic pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron, The Luminist filters 19th century Ceylon through the lens of an English woman, Catherine Colebrook and a 15 year old Tamil boy, Eligius Shourie. Left fatherless by soldiers, Eligius is brought as a servant to the Colebrooks' neglected estate. In the shadow of Catherine's obsession to arrest beauty--to select a moment from the thousands comprising her life in Ceylon and hold it apart from mere memory--Eligius transforms into her apprentice in the creation of the first haunting photographs in history.
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