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      The Counting House

      by David Dabydeen
      Published
      Nov 2005
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
      Pages
      179
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      Issues of caste, slavery, racism, and the immigrant experience in the early 19th century are addressed in this novel. Rohini and Vidia, a young married couple struggling for survival in a small, caste-ridden Indian village are seduced by a recruiter's persuasive talk of easy work and plentiful land. They sign up as indentured laborers to go to British Guiana and discover their harsh fate as "bound coolies" in a country only just emerging from the savage brutalities of slavery. In their problematic encounters with the Afro-Guyanese, hostile to immigrant labor, they confront the truths of their uprooted condition and learn to live with their fate.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      Nov 2005 Peepal Tree Press ISBN13 9781845230159 ISBN10 1845230159
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      Jan 1996 Random House ISBN13 9780224043434 ISBN10 0224043439
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