This beautifully crafted novel chronicles Idris’s travels… Anita Nair does a marvelous job of bringing such rich and various settings and cultures from another age, to vivid life. With the help of intensive research and a forceful imagination, she draws readers to...
Packed with riveting adventure, exploits, mystery, intrigue, sensualism, and passion, and full of fascinating insights into the 17th century, the book keeps you riveted and hungry for more as the historical tale moves from land to sea and back to land. The amount of...
The novel is a breath-taking adventure, a passionate love story and a voyage of discovery with the tall, dark, mysterious traveller, Idris, as the still centre of the story. The...
Meticulously researched and quite, quite unforgettable – Anita Nair brings alive the 17th century. It’s not just about the language and the story, but also as much about the landscape which she describes to the fullest which add an element of mystery. Fascinatingly...
Nair’s prose unfolds like an Ang Lee film, as a vast geographic panorama sweeps in front of the reader’s eye, frame by exquisite frame. The individual sentences are zen-like in their balance and poise, more beautiful for the absence of extra words. Nair brilliantly...
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