{"product_id":"the-city-of-palaces-9780143422976","title":"The City Of Palaces","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sujata Massey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Romance - Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA stunning, panoramic historical saga set during the tumult of India’s freedom struggle. Bengal, 1930. Young Pom’s life changes forever when her family is wiped out in a devastating flood. She becomes a maidservant in a British boarding school where she discovers her gift for languages. Amidst the drudgery of her duties, she finds unexpected friendship and experiences the stirrings of first love. However, tragedy soon strikes, and our heroine is forced into hiding. Alone and desperate, she makes a dangerous journey from the secretive, decadent world of an exclusive brothel to the grand metropolis of Calcutta, the city of palaces. Swept into the rising tide of the Indian freedom struggle, she creates a new life for herself, one that holds the promise of happiness and true love … until her past returns to haunt her.About The Author:Sujata Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany, and grew up mostly in St Paul, Minnesota. She holds a BA in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University, and started her working life as a features reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun. After leaving the newspaper, she moved to Japan, where she studied Japanese, taught English and began writing her first novel, The Salaryman’s Wife. This novel became the first of many in the Rei Shimura mystery series, which has won the Agatha and Macavity awards, and been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark awards. Sujata’s books have been published in more than eighteen countries. Currently, she is based near Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46296473239703,"sku":"9780143422976","price":423.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143422976.webp?v=1769304841","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-city-of-palaces-9780143422976","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}