01941nam a22002177a 4500 PH-MaWHO 20250521141101.0 250424b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780553381764 DLC eng WPRO Library DLC rda Ali, Thalassa. 675709 Singular hostage: a magnificent novel of victorian india, A New York: Bantam Books, 2002. 352 pages; 23 cm. In a land of exotic splendor, a young Englishwoman finds herself guardian of an orphan child believed by a dying maharajah to be endowed with magical gifts. It is a role that will take her on a perilous journey into a kingdom’s walled city to protect a child she doesn’t know from a culture she doesn’t understand... A Singular Hostage The year is 1838. Mariana Givens, a spirited young woman of twenty, has been sent to India to find a suitable husband. Traveling as a translator, she joins the entourage of Lord Auckland, the British Governor-General, as he journeys across India with an army ten thousand strong to meet the fabled Ranjit Singh, Maharajah of the Punjab. Eager young officers compete for Mariana’s favor, but it is with India that she falls in love: the baggage elephants tramping through country vast and wild; the scent of exotic foods at remote campsites; the enigmatic tutor who is her guide to native languages and ways. Lord Auckland must forge an alliance with Ranjit Singh that will deliver Afghanistan into British control, but as he negotiates his crucial treaty, Mariana is drawn into a perilous conspiracy surrounding the one-eyed Maharajah’s baby hostage--a child of mystical repute named Saboor. British -- India Fiction 675710 India -- History -- 19th century Fiction 675711 Hostages Fiction 675712 Historical Fiction (Victorian era) 675713 nml MONO 18248 18248 0 0 nml 0 0 FIC WPRO WPRO Mez 2025-04-24 donation 0 FIC ALI Singular FIC0184 2025-04-24 08:49:16 2025-04-24 MONO