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A body, not a corpse corpse is too ghoulish, too final. His latest, the perfect man, was awarded the commonwealth writers prize for the best book of europe and south asia, and was longlisted for the man booker prize. The boy by naeem murr, houghton mifflin, hardcover. His first novel, the boy, concerns a fathers search for a strange orphan he adopted into his. Mar 07, 2007 novelist naeem murr wins cwealth prize pti mar 7, 2007, 10. Publication date 1998 topics impostors and imposture, foster parents, good and evil, boys. Amazon pay best sellers mobiles customer service new releases pantry sell computers books. Fifteenyearold rob garrett wants nothing more than to escape the segregated south and prove himself. If boy is the living embodiment of kindness and joy, i can. The perfect man is rajiv, a boy born of an indian mother and british father who is dumped by his.

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