City of Djinns
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From the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted тАШThe Return of a KingтАЩ, this is William DalrympleтАЩs 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 тАУ from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj тАУ William Dalrymple comes to know the bewildering city intimately.
He pursues DelhiтАЩs interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem.
тАШCity of DjinnsтАЩ is an astonishing and sensitive portrait of a city, and confirms William Dalrymple as one of the most compelling explorers of IndiaтАЩs past and present.
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William DalrympleтАЩs first book, тАШIn XanaduтАЩ, won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award. His second, тАШCity of DjinnsтАЩ, won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. His third, тАШFrom the Holy MountainтАЩ, 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, тАШThe Age of KaliтАЩ, and three history books: тАШWhite MughalsтАЩ, which won the Wolfson Prize, тАШThe Last MughalтАЩ, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and тАШNine LivesтАЩ, which won the Asia House Literary Award.
