Stealing Green Mangoes

Stealing Green Mangoes Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood

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"A memoir about the divergent paths of two brothers - one who became a police officer and the other a murderer. Sunil Dutta was a twenty-year veteran of the LAPD. Before that, he was a biologist at the University of California and a translator of classic Indian poetry. Before that, he was a destitute refugee, his family uprooted by the genocidal violence surrounding the Partition of India. Back then, he had a brother. Back then, they were children together, chasing whatever fun and solace they could find in impossible conditions. Sunil looked up to Raju. He admired his strength, his character. Raju took a different path. He was arrested, he fled the law, he became a fugitive. He became a terrorist. Then he became a father - and then a murderer. After being diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer later in life, Sunil urgently wanted to understand what choices had led he and his brother down such radically different paths. In Stealing Green M

Book information

ISBN: 9780062795854
Publisher: Ecco, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Imprint: Ecco, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 973.049140092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 238
Weight: 401g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 28mm