William Dalrymple

Return of a King

The Battle for Afghanistan

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• Gewicht: 1000g
• ISBN-13: 9781408862872
• ISBN-10: 1408862875
• Artikelnr.: 73587213

Autorenporträt

William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, Nine Lives. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix d'Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone Crossword Award for non-fiction, the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage, and has, prior to the shortlisting of Return of a King, been longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize three times. In 2012 he was appointed Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in Humanities at Princeton University. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.

Rezensionen

This sorry saga has been recounted many times, but never that I can recall as well as by Dalrymple. He is a master story-teller, whose special gift lies in the use of indigenous sources, so often neglected by imperial chroniclers