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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee , Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee

The Conch Bearer

265 pp. | Roaring Brook/Porter | September, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-7613-1935-2 $$16.95 | Library ISBN 0-7613-2793-2 $$23.90
(2) 4-6 An underappreciated servant for a tea-stall owner, twelve-year-old Anand's kindness toward an old man shifts this novel from reality to fantasy. The old man is returning to its home a miraculous conch that will restore power to the forces of good. With precise language that respectfully evokes an Indian setting both mundane and mysterious, Divakaruni moves us from the marketplace to the land of myth.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2004

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