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Harvest
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- Book Synopsis
- A satire on the export trade in live organs from the Third World to the West. Om is driven by poverty to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make his home into a germ-free zone. Jeetu, his brother returns unexpectedly and is taken away as the donor. Om can't accept this, so he follows his brother. Jaya, his wife is left alone. Will she too be seduced into selling her body for use by the rich westerners? Winner of the Onassis International Play Competition. Broadcast on the BBC World Service and now a feature film.
- About The Author
- Manjula Padmanabhan A writer and artist living in New Delhi, she has illustrated twenty-one books for children and drew a daily comic strip called SUKI for six years. She has also published a collection of short stories entitled Hot Death, Cold Soup (Kali for Women). Her two most recent books are Getting There (Picador) a fictionalised memoir and This is SUKI! (Duckfoot Press) an album of her comic strip. Harvest is her fifth play.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780953675777
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Aurora Metro Books, (30 September 2003)
- Number of Pages
- 92
- Weight
- 109 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 6 mm
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