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Book Title: Tamil Love Poetry : the Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru
Item Length: 0.9in
Item Height: 0in
Item Width: 0.6in
Author: Martha Selby
Original Language: Tamil
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Asian / General, Asia / India & South Asia
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry, History
Item Weight: 11.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
