Mountain Tales. Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings, Main, Paperback - Saumya Roy

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A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.

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Reducere. Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings Roy has a journalist's unflinching eye, a poet's talent for detail, and a ...

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