The Wistful Mountain

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Chapter One The backwaters of Kerala move with a slow, muscular weight, carrying the silt of the monsoon and the debt of the living. In the third year of the reign, the oyster warden’s boat was a hollow thing, its planks warped by salt and neglect, needing repairs before the season could turn against it. I was thirty years old, and my hands were stained not with ink, but with the black sludge...

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