Complex family relationships interweave with a murder plot in this ambitious new novel.

在这部构思大胆的新小说中，复杂的家庭关系与一个谋杀阴谋交织在一起。

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Since 1951, when land reforms began that would settle almost every family in Shahabpur on its own plot, the village population has quadrupled.

自从1951年土地改革开始，几乎每个沙哈普尔家庭都有了自己的小块土地以来，村里的人口翻了两番。

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The family used to be farmers, but living off a small plot of land proved too hard.

这一家人曾经都是农民，然而靠着一点薄地为生实在是太艰难了。

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As Hanson says, thus arose the kleros, or the idea of a privately held plot attached not to any one person, but rather in perpetuity to a single farm family or oikos.

如汉森所言,kleros兴起了,或是说有了私有土地,而不再属于单个人的观念产生了,也可永久的属于单个的农业家庭或者领主

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Police will now search the family plot of Sinclair Upton, an acquaintance of Gartshore's, in a bid to draw the 55-year mystery to a close.

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When she was 13, with food scarce and every child's hands needed to work the family plot, her mother sold the family cow to pay for Wambugu's boarding school 10 miles away.

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When she was 13, with food scarce and every child's hands needed to work the family plot, her mother sold the family cow to pay for Wambugu's boarding school 16 kilometers away.

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