Mandala

Pearl S. Buck
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News reaches Maharana Prince Jagat and his wife, Moti, that their only son, Jai, has been killed by the Chinese in a border skirmish. An inconsolable Moti sends Jagat out to bring the boy's spirit home. On the journey, the prince becomes involved with a beautiful and mysterious young American woman. Thus begins the fatal attraction between Eastern and Western ways, one bound by rigid custom, the other temptingly ripe with freethinking.
Genres: FictionIndiaHistorical FictionClassicsRomanceAsiaNovelsNobel PrizeLiteratureAmerican
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