{"product_id":"spell-of-the-flying-foxes-9780143065340","title":"Spell of the Flying Foxes","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sylvia Dyer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: India Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: India Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChamparan, 1845. Drawn to the rich, fertile land to farm Blue Gold, indigo, Alfred Augustus Tripe settles by the river Baghmati. A whole village of workers emerges nearby as Tripe starts a family with an Indian heiress. Nearly a century later, Tripe's sprawling home and most of his family are destroyed in the devastating Bihar earthquake of 1934. Now his only granddaughter, Gladys, must find a way to stop her unscrupulous cousin Harry from usurping her entire inheritance and turning her young children destitute. A formidable dacoit leader miraculously comes to her rescue, India gains independence, and the flying foxes, the bearers of good fortune, disappear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn sparkling, lyrical prose, Sylvia Dyer, Gladys's daughter, brings to life a world of picturesque beauty, love and hope intertwined with social ills, and a time when the passionate freedom struggle threatened the very existence of Anglo-Indians in India.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"India Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45086460772503,"sku":"9780143065340","price":228.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143065340.webp?v=1767639156","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/spell-of-the-flying-foxes-9780143065340","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}