The author and his artist wife Olivia, who did the attractive illustrations for this book, settled for a year in a rented apartment in a popular quarter of Delhi. The outcome is a wonderful mixture of ancient and modern: for example entrancing descriptions of the palaces as they were during the time of the Mughal Empire interspersed with perspicacious insights into the Indian way of life, fifty years after the end of the Raj. Fascinating!
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 11 October 2001 ) |
