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City of Djinns
William Dalrymple
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Description for City of Djinns
Paperback. 'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 248. Good clean copy
‘Could you show me a djinn?’ I asked. ‘Certainly,’ replied the Sufi. ‘But you would run away.’
From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted ‘The Return of a King’, this is William Dalrymple’s captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns. Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters – from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj – William Dalrymple comes to know the bewildering city intimately.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Harpercollins
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006375951
SKU
9780006375951
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple’s first book, ‘In Xanadu’, won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and the Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award. His third, ‘From the Holy Mountain’, won the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award and was shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook Award. His fourth, ‘The Age of Kali’, was published in November 1998. He is the youngest ... Read more
Reviews for City of Djinns
‘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