MARC details
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9789386224378 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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Purchased |
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Prism Books,Kadavanthra,Kochi |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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English |
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F |
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Neelima Dalmia Adhar |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
MERCHANTS OF DEATH |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Chennai |
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Westland |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2017/01/01 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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362 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
A sinister curse trails the House of Loya, a powerful Marwari family of arms dealers that head a vast conglomerate of industries. Leading oddly distorted lives where immorality and sexual perversions are infinitely glorified, they cruise along mindlessly even as they become victims of strange mishaps and untold tragedies.Bharat Loya, the firstborn in the third generation, grows up with a deep-rooted mother-fixation. He is afflicted with all the maladies of the upper class, with licentiousness and perversity steeped in his veins.In an unexpected turn of events, tumultuous political changes divest the family of their clout and they find themselves in an ugly wrangle with the government that threatens to bring them to ruination. Bharat Loya takes over as the head of business. With his deep pockets and a legitimate facade of hotelier-cum-airline-owner, he obliterates his rivals to become the uncrowned king of the whole immoral pack. Yet Bharat Loya is a troubled man.Set in India in the second half of the last century, the story gives a scathing insight into the lives of the Marwaris, also known as the Jews of India, highly religious, very private people who, at times, even lead lurid and decadent lives.<br/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/>When Neelima Dalmia Adhar wrote Father Dearest: The Life and Times of R. K. Dalmia in 2003, she was on the bestseller list and labelled a daredevil 'family chronicler' who had exposed some fiercely-guarded secrets. She then wrote a novel, Merchants of Death in 2007 to be established as a mistress of the genre.Educated in a convent school and a reputed college in Delhi, she has a Master's in Psychology with a specialisation in 'Personality'. Her first and only job was to teach Psychology to undergraduate students of Delhi University.A passionate 'people-watcher', she is drawn to oddities and thrives on writing about personalities and human behaviour, from the quirky to the mysterious to the bizarre, a subject she does chillingly close to the bone.She lives in Delhi with her husband, children and two grandchildren |
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Fiction |
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Marwaris -- Fiction. |
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Marwaris Family |
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Lending |
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