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The Ventriloquist's Tale

Pauline Melville

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#3568 of 8,085 books · #1804 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (1998).

On a visit to Guyana in South America a woman writer from Britain has an illicit romance with a Scottish-Indian cattle rancher. In the course of it she learns of an incestuous affair involving his ancestors. A tale within a tale.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury
ISBN-13
9780747531500
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Forbidden loveFamily secretsCultural identity in Guyana

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