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Authors: Thalassa Ali
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A BEGGAR AT THE GATE
A Bantam Book / October 2004
Published by Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Excerpt on page 2, from
An English Interpretation of The Holy Qur'an with full Arabic Text
by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Sh. Muhammad Ashraf Publishers and Booksellers, Lahore, Pakistan, 1975.
Excerpt on page 13, fragment of Hafiz translated by Colonel H. Wilberforce Clarke, 1891.
Excerpt on page 193, fragment of Sa'di, translated by Samuel Robinson of Wilmslow, 1883.
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Copyright © 2004 by Thalassa Ali
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ali, Thalassa.
A beggar at the gate/Thalassa Ali.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-48211-2
1. Punjab (India)—Fiction. 2. British—India—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3601.L39B44 2004
813′.6—dc22
2003063898
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