{"product_id":"and-gazelles-leaping-9789386338228","title":"And Gazelles Leaping","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sudhin N Ghosh\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Speaking Tiger\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Speaking Tiger\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn orphan, his pet, a Manipuri elephant sensitive about his small size and their friends—Heera and her nanny-goat; Mazdoor and his donkey White Beauty; Tu Fan, a Chinese boy and Soetomo from Java—attend Sister’s Svenska’s kindergarten on an abandoned estate in rural Calcutta. The children and their pets live an idyllic life: they have many adventures on the estate and are loved, sheltered and guided by Sister Svenska; Karin, the Sister’s help; Moti-Didi the washerwoman and Cha-Cha the wheelwright. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when a rapacious corporation from the big city swoops in to take over their school and a gang of juvenile thugs threatens the orphan and his elephant, he must band together with his friends—with a little help and advice from the grown-ups around them—and do battle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA delightful fable about the innocent pleasures of childhood and the evils of the world which forever threaten to mar it, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAnd Gazelles Leaping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was first published in 1949. This is the first in Sudhin Ghose’s quartet which follows the young boy as he grows from a wide-eyed child into a disillusioned adult. Long-neglected classics, these novels are being reissued for the first time in more than half a century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Speaking Tiger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47076411965591,"sku":"9789386338228","price":210.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789386338228.webp?v=1772873397","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/and-gazelles-leaping-9789386338228","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}