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Page 131
And sometimes he would sit in the compound and tell his strange stories to her
and to the child , who had been born to her ... before , and he was happy as he
had been happy with her and with Hinnihami years ago when they were children
.
And sometimes he would sit in the compound and tell his strange stories to her
and to the child , who had been born to her ... before , and he was happy as he
had been happy with her and with Hinnihami years ago when they were children
.
Page 132
On the morning following the evening on which the child was born , Silindu came
back from the jungle carrying in his arms a fawn newly dropped by its mother . He
went straight to Hinnihami , who lay in the hut nursing the child , and kneeling ...
On the morning following the evening on which the child was born , Silindu came
back from the jungle carrying in his arms a fawn newly dropped by its mother . He
went straight to Hinnihami , who lay in the hut nursing the child , and kneeling ...
Page 137
The death of the child is what every mother must continually expect . They had
seen it too long in the village to be surprised at their own suffering : the birth of
children every year and then the coming of the fever to carry them off . Their grief
was ...
The death of the child is what every mother must continually expect . They had
seen it too long in the village to be surprised at their own suffering : the birth of
children every year and then the coming of the fever to carry them off . Their grief
was ...
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User Review - kaitanya64 - LibraryThingSet in colonial Ceylon, this novel is vivid and readable. While the author clearly illustrates a particular culture and time, that of a rural family in the "dry" forest area, where life is ... Read full review
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User Review - Steve38 - LibraryThingDear me but this is a depressing book. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong for the main characters. Written from the point of view of impoverished, uneducated jungle dwellers in Sri Lanka by ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Village in the Jungle |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0701202564, 9780701202569 |
| Length | 307 pages |
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