The Mountain of Light (45 page)

First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition October 2013

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Map by Paul Pugliese

Cover design by John Vairo Jr.

Cover painting © George Landseer/The Bridgeman Art Library

Raw diamond © Edward Kinsman/Photo Researchers/Getty Images

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sundaresan, Indu.

The mountain of light / Indu Sundaresan.—First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.

pages   cm

1. Diamonds—History—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3619.U53M68 2013

813'.6—dc23

2012042871

ISBN 978-1-4516-4351-0

ISBN 978-1-4516-4352-7 (ebook)