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Sam Kandy, born in 1899 in a poor village in the heart of Ceylon and abandoned by his family ten years later at the gates of a remote temple, resolves to make his own luck amongst the cheats and chancers of the world. He marries a nobleman's daughter and coldly pursues a life of wealth, prestige, and power.

(Paperback)

An uproarious novel about academia, family, fatherhood, the trials of Catholic faith in a secular world. With seahorses.