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000453502 1001_ $$aBoyagoda, Randy,$$d1976-
000453502 24510 $$aBeggar's feast /$$cRandy Boyagoda.
000453502 260__ $$aToronto, Ontario ;$$aNew York :$$bPintail,$$c2012, c2011.
000453502 300__ $$a321 p. ;$$c21 cm.
000453502 520__ $$aBeggar's Feast is a novel about a man who lives in defiance of fate. Sam Kandy was born in 1899 to low prospects in a Ceylon village and died one hundred years later as the wealthy headman of the same village, a self-made shipping magnate, and father of sixteen, three times married and twice widowed. In four parts, this enthralling novel tells Sam's story from his boyhood - when his parents, convinced by his horoscope that he would be a blight upon the family, abandon him at the gates of a distant temple - through his dramatic escape from the temple and journey across Ceylon to Australia and Singapore, before his bold return to the Ceylon village he once called home. There he tries to win recognition for his success in the world - at any cost.
000453502 60010 $$aKandy, Sam,$$d1899-1999$$vFiction.
000453502 651_0 $$aSri Lanka$$vFiction.
000453502 655_7 $$aBiographical fiction.$$2lcgft
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