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  • The Punkhawala and the Prostitute

    (By Wesley Leon Aroozoo)

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    Author Wesley Leon Aroozoo
    “Book Descriptions: Finalist for the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize

    Beneath the façade of a land golden with opportunities dwell two destitutes shipped to Singapore in the late 1800s. Oseki, an ingenue forced into servitude as a karayuki, grapples with betrayal by her own father and transforms into a monster she can’t recognise. Gobind, a deaf convict from India, serves his sentence as a punkhawala to a tiger-hunting British master obsessed with killing Rimau Satan, the man-eating tiger; while on a hunt, his butchered memories lurk from the darkness, aching to pounce. When their paths intertwine, they face their inner demons to find humanity and their way back home.”

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