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INDIAN SUMMER Will Randall Abacus, GBP 7.99
THIS is a thrumming, vibrant story of flawed humanity writ small. Its colourful cast - comprised mostly of paupers, orphans and beggars, the very detritus of India - in the course of 200 pages reveal humankind, against all odds, to be transcendent, decent, considerate and good. Generosity flows through the writing of this tale, as does affection. The author, a stranger adrift in Poona, escaping the vagaries of teaching in "dreary London", is instantly wooed.
But Indian Summer is never too sickly, never pleased with itself, never blinkered; it conjures a magical, gripping picture of one man's accidental passage to a country of the mind - the beguiling...