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The Strange Case of Billy Biswas

by Arun Joshi · 1971

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A thought provoking novel, in which the normal and the abnormal, the ordinary and the extraordinary, illusion and reality, resignation and desire rub shoulders.

Setting
1970s1970sMore like thisLess of thisIndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages

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