Idris: Keeper of the Light

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A powerful historical novel from a well-loved and celebrated author.The year is 1659. Idris, a Somalian trader, is in Kerala to attend the Mamangam festivities. By a strange twist of fate, he meets his nine-year-old son whose existence he had been unaware of. In an attempt to keep his son close to him, he embarks with him on a voyage that ends in the diamond mines of Golconda. Packed with passion, adventure and fascinating aspects of life in the seventeenth century in southern India, Idris is a page-turner that will intrigue and excite readers everywhere.ABOUT THE AUTHORAnita Nair is the best-selling author of five novels, The Better Man, Ladies Coupé, Mistress, Lessons in Forgetting and Cut Like Wound. Mistress was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize in the UK. Her books have been translated into thirty languages around the world. Anita lives in Bangalore with her husband and son. Visit her at www.anitanair.net.