A Beautiful Lie (24 page)

Irfan Master

Bloomsbury Publishing, London, Berlin, New York and Sydney

First published in Great Britain in January 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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This electronic edition published in 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Text copyright © Irfan Master 2011

Maps copyright © Peter Bailey 2011

The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted

Poem in chapter 4: ‘Where the Mind Is Without Fear’ by Rabindranath Tagore from Gitanjali

Grateful acknowledgement is made to Visva-Bharati University

as the archive holder of  Tagore’s work

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ISBN 9781408812013

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