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Mandala

by Pearl S. Buck · 1970

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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.

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Setting
IndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of thisAsiaAsiaMore like thisLess of this
Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 362 pages

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