When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its ins ular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz,...(展开全部)

Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century and the basis for director David Lean’s Academy Award-winning film, A Passage to India tells of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century. In exquisite prose, Forster reveals the menace that lurks just beneath the surface of ordinary life, as a common misunderstanding erupts into a devastating affair....(展开全部)

When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its ins ular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz,...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description Remarkable, bewildering, totally irresistible - India offers a million different experiences, all at once, all the time. If you seek spiritual enlightenment, the thrill of scaling the mighty Himalaya, or the buzz of a modern hypermetropolis - or if you just want to lie on a tropical beach and count cows - discover the sensory overload that is India wi...(展开全部)

For more than thirty years, Harry Gruyaert has been recording the subtle chromatic vibrations of Eastern and Western light. His photographs attest to his singular vision: his interest in story, public space and unexpected scenes. This book brings together 125 of Gruyaert's photographs of India, many published here for the first time. From Gujarat to Kerala, Gruyaert captured th...(展开全部)

A young woman is transformed by a magical journey from the dark ages to modern times, from brooding medieval forests to bustling Constantinople. Halla is turned out of her father’s castle by her new stepmother. Her nurse transforms herself into a bear to look after Halla. This is just the first of the wondrous and natural changes in Naomi Mitchison’s magical 1952 novel. Travel ...(展开全部)

In the winter of 1963, Murphy got on her bicycle and crossed Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Himalaya to reach India—by herself. She was not afraid, she says. Nevertheless, she carried a pistol, and needed it.

Quatrième de couverture C'est l'histoire d'un amour, vécu aux Indes, dans les années 30, dans une ville surpeuplée des bords du Gange. Deux jours de cette histoire sont ici évoqués. La saison est celle de la mousson d'été. Quatre voix sans visage parlent de cette histoire. L'histoire de cet amour, les voix l'ont sue, ou lue, il y a longtemps. Certaines s'en souviennent mieux qu...(展开全部)

Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Lahore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism.

阿南德·格里哈拉达斯 作者的父母曾是印度人，后移民到美国并定居。他毕业于密歇根大学，之后到达印度孟买，担任麦肯锡公司管理咨询师。2005年起担任《国际先驱论坛报》、《纽约时报》网站专栏作家，为其报道和撰写来自孟买的新闻，本书就是他多年观察和研究印度的深刻总结。