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'After a lifetime in India, Philip returns to Australia, to his estranged wife Jenny, whom he had brought from India fifty years earlier. Philip seeks to establish links with his ex-wife and his grandson amidst the 2001 'Tampa' crisis. Displaced and disappointed in his hopes of resuming a career in his own country, Philip is visited by a ghost: Ragini, the young revolutionary he fell in love with in 1948. Philip is troubled by his unsorted memories of those times. In 1948 India has achieved its independence but the princely state of Hyderabad – the Nizam's Dominions – with its feudal splendours and deep pockets of rural poverty and injustice, totters alone, unwilling to accede to India, fighting Communist insurrection within. Philip, 'the world's youngest headmaster', has been appointed from Australia to a one-teacher school in the distant town of Warangal, a post no Hindu will take. He meets Anand, a Congress Party member working to bring Hyderabad into the Indian Union, and Ragini, the daughter of a landlord and a Communist, who has given away the family lands. A love triangle develops as events sweep them up – events that will return to life and take their toll half a century later. "The Last Candles of the Night" is a lyrical and moving tale of the pitfalls of memory and the costs of deep allegiance.' (Publication summary)

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    • Armidale, Armidale area, New England, New South Wales,: Lacuna Publishing , 2014 .
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      • Published May 2014
      ISBN: 9781922198136
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      Speaking Tiger ,
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      Extent: 275p.
      ISBN: 9789385288142

Works about this Work

Ian Bedford : The Last Candles of the Night Michael Jongen , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , December 2014;

— Review of The Last Candles of the Night Ian Bedford , 2014 single work novel
Review : The Last Candles of the Night Subhash Jaireth , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 16 2014;

— Review of The Last Candles of the Night Ian Bedford , 2014 single work novel
Review : The Last Candles of the Night Subhash Jaireth , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 16 2014;

— Review of The Last Candles of the Night Ian Bedford , 2014 single work novel
Ian Bedford : The Last Candles of the Night Michael Jongen , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , December 2014;

— Review of The Last Candles of the Night Ian Bedford , 2014 single work novel
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