A singular hostage
By: Thalassa Ali
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780553381764; 9780553802344
Subjects: Fiction; Afghan Wars; British; History
Description: Stifled by Victorian England, Mariana Givens is sent to India in 1838 to find a husband, but she lands in an India in political turmoil, and becomes the guardian of Saboor, an orphan felt by a dying maharajah to have magical gifts.