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02277aam a2200301 i 4500 001 1810B7C0253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 200205s2020 ii 000 f eng d 010 $a 2020327081 020 $a 0670093769 020 $a 9780670093762 035 $a (OCoLC)1139617732 040 $a DKAGE $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d CLU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lcode $a lcode 050 00 $a PR9499.3.B32 $b S27 2020 082 04 $a 823.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Basu, Kunal, $d 1956- $e author. 245 10 $a Sarojini's mother / $c Kunal Basu. 264 1 $a Gurgaon, Haryana, India : $b Penguin/Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, $c 2020. 300 $a 231 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a Sarojini-Saz-Campbell comes to India to search for her biological mother. Adopted and taken to England at an early age, she has a degree from Cambridge and a mathematician's brain adept in solving puzzles. Handicapped by a missing shoebox that held her birth papers and the death of her English mother, she has few leads to carry out her mission and scant knowledge of Calcutta, her birthplace. Luckily, she has Chiru Sen, an Elvis lookalike, as her guide. Together, Saz and Chiru chase the mirage of a lost mother, helped by Chiru's band members and his friend Suleiman, master bookie of the racecourse. When luck leads them to a slum, Jamuna, a housemaid with a troubled past, presents herself as the likely candidate. As Saz settles into the routine of slum life, a second candidate, Urvasi, presents herself, emerging from the very opposite end of the spectrum. With Saz split in half, nothing is spared in the battle between the mothers, moving at a fast clip to the final throw of the dice as rivals await the result of DNA matching from their blood samples. But will the verdict of science settle the puzzle of motherhood for Sarojini? Or will it be left to the judgment of Suleiman the Wise, King of the Racecourse, the bearer of ancient wisdom, to arrive at that supreme revelation? --Amazon.ca summary 500 $a Novel. 650 0 $a Indic fiction (English) $y 21st century. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015347.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1810B7C0253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search