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Harvest

HARVEST
Manjula Padmanabhan
Winner of the Onassis International Play Competition. Broadcast on the BBC World Service and now a film


Om is driven by poverty to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make his home into a germ-free zone. Jeetu, his brother returns unexpectedly and is taken away as the donor. Om can't accept this. Jaya, his wife is left alone.

Will she too be seduced into selling her body for use by the rich westerners?

A satire on the export trade in live organs from the Third World to the West.

£6.99 pbk 96 pages
ISBN 0-9536757-7-7

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