A Beggar at the Gate (Mass Market Paperbound) (ISBN-13: 9780553584172)

Set in nineteenth-century British India, Thalassa Ali's dazzling debut, A Singular Hostage, introduced us to Mariana Givens, the Englishwoman who risked everything to save a young Indian orphan from certain death. Now Ali returns to that exotic kingdom beyond the northwestern frontier, where Mariana will come face-to-face with a different destiny.

Two years have passed since Mariana left the walled city of Lahore. But she's unable to forget its haunting scent of roses or her ill-fated marriage to a native-born husband that has scandalized Calcutta society and made her an outcast among the English. Worse still, she bears the knowledge that she will be forced to give up Saboor--the boy believed to be endowed with magical gifts whose life she risked her own to save.

Now Mariana must revisit Lahore to return Saboor to his family and request a divorce from Hassan Ali Khan. But how can she say good-bye to the enigmatic man whose love defied two cultures--or the child she's loved as her own? As political and civil strife threaten to erupt in violence, she seeks answers in a world no Englishwoman has ever seen. And she's driven ever closer to a secret so powerful that it will change her life--and the lives of those she loves--forever.

Author: Thalassa Ali
ISBN-10: 0553584170
ISBN-13: 9780553584172
Publisher: Bantam
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2008
Pages: 416
Format: Mass Market Paperbound
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 6.99h x 4.17w x 1.15d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.9
Point Value: 16
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 87227 / Beggar at the Gate