Anurada negotiates our wobbly Planet

By: Roger Day

When 12-year-old Anurada Chowdray leaves the Bay of Bengal in the dead of night she embarks on a summer of discovery. In India she will sell an ancient gold coin and learn about the country's most enduring love story. Traveling to Arabia she is imprisoned and gains an understanding of the stars in the sky. A stowaway boat journey from Oman to Turkey shows how different religions really can live together, while Istanbul introduces her to the world of stamps and the evils of gambling. Venice, Anurada decides, is just an illusion. Then New York is her first port of call in the USA. But it is back in the Himalaya that she briefly becomes the center of the universe, before returning home as a completely different Anurada to the frightened girl who had left home two months earlier.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1411679164
• ISBN13: 9781411679160
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
• Length: 393 Pages