Shalimar - Hardcover

Shalimar

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Book Description hardcover. 1st edition. New York. 1983. August 1983. Harper & Row. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0060390220. 341 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature India Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - First published in Great Britain as PLEASURE CITY. Where once the West flowed East to build empires, now it sets out, strictly by invitation of the developing nations, to construct nuclear piles. Hilton-type hotels, and pleasure resorts in the style of Xanadu. Tully is engaged on one such mission. A descendant of the consuls who once ruled India, he is now on the Board of AIDCORP, a transcontinental consortium that is building a luxury holiday resort on a hitherto untouched stretch of coastline. HE comes, sees, and is enchanted. But India, as he has been warned, and is to discover for himself, is both enchantress and minx. Rikki is sixteen, a fisherboy who has no notion of the grandeur of empire. Yet he is no stranger to the riches of the imagination: a process sparked in childhood by an old missionary couple, and soaring to blissful heights with the arrival of Tully. Rikki responds to the visionary in Tullv, while Tully acknowledges in the boy - in his perceptions of beauty and his naked and devastating honesty qualities of infinite appeal. Meanwhile the pleasure city grows, affecting all who come in contact: from Apu, headman of the coastal settlement, to the Englishwoman who comes for a visit and stays on for life, to Carmen the Spanish dancer, to Valli, the local belle, to Corinna, Tully's ravishing wife. All are shown up under the burning glass that is India. This is a story not of empire but of its overspill; and more than that, the haunting story of the impact of progress on a fishing colony, widening to take in a land and its people. inventory #5522 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Seller Inventory # z5522

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