About the Book: Beggars Feast
Sam Kandy, born to low prospects in a Ceylon village in1899,dies a hundred years
later as the wealthy headman of thesamevillage-a self-made shipping magnate and
the father ofsixteen,whos been married three times and widowed twice.
Told in four parts, this enthralling novel traces Sams storyfromhis boyhood-when
his parents, convinced by his horoscope thathed bea blight upon the family,
abandoned him at the gates of adistanttemple-through to his dramatic escape from
the temple, hisdaringjourney across Ceylon to Australia and Singapore, and
hisboldreturn to the Ceylon village he once called home. There, hetries towin
recognition for his success in the world -at anycost.
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