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Great adventures, wonderful, creative writing. - Goodreads I guess every writer has his/her own biases! - Goodreads Great intro to the city - Goodreads Brilliant insight into the history of Delhi. - Goodreads It is well written and well researched. - Goodreads Quite an astonishing feat as his prose is amazing. - Goodreads User Review - Flag as inappropriate I like how this book is written by someone just moving to India and living their for the first time from their perspective which is invaluable view of India. I enjoyed his wife's illustrations just as much as the prose. Review: City of Djinns: A Year in DelhiUser Review - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsSparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of ... Read full review Related books
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