About the Book

‘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.

He pursues Delhi’s interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem.

‘City of Djinns’ is an astonishing and sensitive portrait of a city, and confirms William Dalrymple as one of the most compelling explorers of India’s past and present.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780006375951
• ISBN 10: 0006375952
• Imprint: Flamingo
• On Sale: 09/20/1999
• Pages: 352
• List Price:19.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : TRAVEL / Asia / India & South Asia
• BISAC2 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• BISAC3 : POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism
• BISAC4 : POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
• BISAC5 : HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia

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  From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (Text Only)

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  In Xanadu: A Quest (Text Only)

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  The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India (Text Only)

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