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New York: Anchor, 2005. Paperback. Good. This book, set in Delhi of the 1980s, is a coming of age tale, where the main protagonist, a teenager studying quantum physics, discovers her own sexuality. The book won the the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the 2006 Stonewall Book Award for Fiction. 354 pages. Weight 0.30 Kg. Airmail postage to Asia Pacific countries: $5, to Central Asia, Europe & the Middle East: $6 and to Africa and North & South America: $7 . Surface mail worldwide $3. Postage within Malaysia is free The book has a small remainder mark on the bottom page edges. The text block is tanned. The binding is tight and there is mild tanning throughout.
Synopsis
Babyji is a novel by Abha Dawesar first published in 2005. Set in 1980s Delhi, India, it recounts the coming of age and the sexual adventures and fantasies of a 16-year-old bespectacled schoolgirl, the only child of a Brahmin family. The three simultaneous "affairs" she has in the course of the novel are all secret, and all with members of her own gender: two with older women and one with a classmate.
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- Bookseller
- The Penang Bookshelf
(MY)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IN59
- Title
- Babyji
- Author
- Dawesar, Abha
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- India Fiction Teens Lesbian
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Glossary
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- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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