Small Wild Goose Pagoda
€ 36,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9789383064489 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Irwin Allan Sealy |
| Editora | Aleph Book Company |
| Formato | Capa dura |
| Número de páginas | 304 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,418 |
| Data de Publicação | 18/05/2014 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 34,81 |
| Imposto | € 2,09 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 36,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 1 unidade em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
The Small Wild Goose Pagoda is a natural and social history of 433 square yards of India. On this piece ofand in the foothills of the Himalaya, the Sealy family have a small brick house with one-and-a-half bedrooms, two-and-a-half gardens, front, back and side, an old Fiat, an internetink with the world, and a terrace roof for walking on under the sky. Here”surrounded by trees:itchi, rosewood, magnolia, silk cotton, jacaranda, a reluctant pear, a profusely flowering peach”Allan Sealyooks back on hisife as he turns sixty and goes from Householder to Forest Dweller (the two middle stages in theife of a man - as set out in Indian philosophical tradition).ending depth and texture to a narrative written in the form of an almanack is his experience of building, after a visit to China, a pagoda on his roof. As the pagoda takes shape we are introduced to a host of extraordinary characters who drift in and out of the 433 square yards: Dhani, family retainer and mali, bent in half by age; Habilis, master brick-layer and contractor with a roving eye; Beauty, part of Habilis''s crew, who may or may not be hisover; Victor, stoic assistant to Habilis. In this remarkable book, his first in a decade, award-winning novelist and travel writer, Irwin Allan Sealy, gives us an evocative account of the drama of small townife; at the same time it is an extraordinary meditation on work, family history, nature, Indian society, and the passage of time.