Name: The Small Wild Goose Pagoda (Hardcover) – by Irwin Allan Sealy
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 938306448X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Aleph Book Company; First edition (18 May 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9789383064489
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9383064489
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 400 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.06 x 21.59 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

The Small Wild Goose Pagoda is a natural and social history of 433 square yards of India. On this piece of land 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 internet link with the world, and a terrace roof for walking on under the sky. Here—surrounded by trees: litchi, rosewood, magnolia, silk cotton, jacaranda, a reluctant pear, a profusely flowering peach—Allan Sealy looks back on his life as he turns sixty and goes from Householder to Forest Dweller (the two middle stages in the life of a man - as set out in Indian philosophical tradition). Lending 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 his lover; 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 town life; at the same time it is an extraordinary meditation on work, family history, nature, Indian society, and the passage of time.

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The Small Wild Goose Pagoda (Hardcover) – by Irwin Allan Sealy

The Small Wild Goose Pagoda (Hardcover) – by Irwin Allan Sealy