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092 _aJ23837
_b.l
100 1 _aJames, Tania,
_eauthor
_918715
245 1 0 _aLoot /
_cTania James
_bA novel
250 _aFirst edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bAlfred A. Knopf,
_c2023
300 _a289 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas hones his craft and learns to read French and then meets Jehane, the daughter of one of du Leze's fellow expatriats. When du Leze is finally permitted to return home to Paris, he begs Abbas to accompany him. But by the time Abbas travels to Europe, the palace has been looted by British forces, and the tiger automaton disappears. To prove himself and make a livelihood in Paris-with the lovely Jehane at his side-Abbas must retrieve the tiger from an estate in the English countryside, where it is displayed in a collection of plundered Moorish and Oriental Art"--
_cProvided by publisher
651 0 _aIndia
_xHistory
_y18th century
_vFiction
_918716
651 0 _aFrance
_xHistory
_y1789-1900
_vFiction
_918717
655 7 _aNovels.
_2lcgft
_950
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_cBOOK
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