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New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 1991. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 310pp. Small spot of soil to rear board, else a Near Fine copy. In original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced Rs.195 at base of front flap); clean and crisp, Near Fine. The acclaimed Indian novelist's third book, in the uncommon first Indian printing. Tharoor won the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Great Indian Novel (1989).