The Mountain of Light

by Claire Allen (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.39

  The Mountain of Light, a London Indian Restaurant, is Balu's great love, the delicious kulfis and dansaks he devises in its kitchen his sole connection to the land of his childhood. When a young woman, Sarah, rents the flat upstairs, she, her boyfriend Jude, and Hari, a waiter, begin to gather after hours to chat around Balu's tables, though Jude's jealousy of Hari threatens their circle. Meanwhile Jozef, an elderly Polish man, begins to reveal a heartbreaking story to Sarah, and so inspires a journey that will lead her to discover where -- and with whom -- she really belongs.

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $5.82

  Jude, however, seems suspicious of Sarah's relationship with Hari, a jealous tendency which intensifies as Sarah begins spending more and more time with Josef, the elderly Polish neighbour she has befriended. Josef is gradually piecing together for Sarah the heartbreaking story of his youth - how he loved and lost a dancer in the Polish National Ballet. Josef dies, Jude leaves her, and she takes refuge in Josef's Polish hometown. Here she is consoled by Josef's great-nephew and the discovery of a trunk filled with memorabilia, until she is ready to return to the people she realises miss her most - Balu and Hari - and the flat above the restaurant that has finally become a home.