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- Burning Witches Alive and the First Journey of an East Indian | Excerpt
Meet Tony – compassionate and insatiably curious, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the coast of India to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself indentured on a Virginia tobacco plantation. Alone and afraid, Tony longs for home, and envisions a life after servitude full of adventure and learning.
Set largely during the early days of English colonization in Virginia, Brinda Charry’s The East Indian gives authentic voice to an otherwise unknown historical figure and brings his world to vivid life.
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About the Book - The East Indian
'Filled with memorable characters, The East Indian grapples with the brutal colonialism and indentured labour of the 1600s with warmth and wit.' - SHASHI THAROORMeet Tony - compassionate and insatiably curious, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters.…
About the Author - Brinda Charry
Brinda Charry went to the United States from India as a graduate student in 1999 and has been living there since. She is a novelist-turned-academic-returned-novelist. A specialist in English Renaissance literature (Shakespeare and contemporaries, with a focus on race, cross-cultural…
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