William Dalrymple

City of Djinns (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007378784
• Artikelnr.: 39947583

Autorenporträt

William Dalrymple's first book, 'In Xanadu', won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award. His second, 'City of Djinns', won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. His third, 'From the Holy Mountain', was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He has also published a collection of his pieces about India, 'The Age of Kali', and three history books: 'White Mughals', which won the Wolfson Prize, 'The Last Mughal', which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and 'Nine Lives', which won the Asia House Literary Award.

Rezensionen

'Delightful ... Surely one of the funniest books about India' Times Literary Supplement

'Scholarly and marvellously entertaining ... a considerable feat' Dervla Murphy, Spectator

'Dalrymple has pulled it off again' Jan Morris, Independent