TY - BOOK AU - Anita Nair TI - Idris: keeper of the light SN - 9789350297810 U1 - In 823.92 PY - 2014/// CY - New Delhi PB - Harper Collins KW - Literature KW - Somalis-fiction KW - Merchants-fiction N2 - The years is 1659. Idris, a Somalian trader, is in Kerala to attend the Mamangam festivities. By a strange twist of fate, he meets his nine years old son whose existence he had been unaware of. In an attempt to keep his son close to him, he embarks with him on a voyage that ends in the diamond mines of Golcondo. Packed with passion, adventure and fascinating aspects of life in the seventeenth century in southern India, Idris is a page-turner that will intrigue and excite readers everywhere ER -