The Pagoda Tree by Claire Scobie

The Pagoda Tree by Claire Scobie

Tamil Nadu, southern India, 1765. Maya plays among the towering granite temples in the ancient city of Tanjore. Like her mother before her, she is destined to become a devadasi, a dancer for the temple. On the day of her initiation, a stranger arrives in town. Walter Sutcliffe, a black-frocked clergyman, strives to offer moral guidance to the British troops stationed in Tanjore, but is beset by his own demons. When the British tear apart her princely kingdom, Maya heads to the steamy port city of Madras, where Thomas Pearce, an ambitious young Englishman, is entranced from the moment he first sees her. The Pagoda Tree takes us deep into the heart of a country struggling under brutal occupation. As East and West collide, Walter Sutcliffe unknowingly plays the decisive card in Maya's destiny.

"A novel to be savoured … Its layering, the unravelling of the story, the subtext of the fortunes made and lost on cotton and silk, the evocative descriptions of saris themselves are all part of [its] tapestry" * Sydney Morning Herald *
"Women’s stories are rarely told in history, nor particularly honoured. The Pagoda Tree offers a powerful, sensual perspective on a time of great transformation in India." -- Sarah Macdonald, author of HOLY COW
"Claire Scobie’s seductive prose and immaculate layering of period detail capture India at her most exotic." -- Susan Kurosawa, The Australian travel editor and author of CORONATION TALKIES
"A rich and enthralling story handled with great skill by someone with a profound understanding of her material." -- David Roach, screenwriter and film director, Beneath Hill 60 and Red Obsession
"[The Pagoda Tree] offers new ways of seeing the past." * Canberra Times *

Claire Scobie is an award-winning British journalist and author who has lived and workedin the UK, India and now Sydney. Her travel memoir, Last Seen in Lhasa (RandomHouse), won the 2007 Dolman Best Travel Book Award. Her novel, The Pagoda Tree, was first published by Penguin Australia and chosen by Good Reading magazine as one of their Best Fiction Reads 2013. Claire runs creative writing workshops at the Faber Academy in London and across Australia and hosts a literary tour to India at the Jaipur Literature Festival with Abercrombie & Kent. She writes for London's Daily Telegraph, Destinasian, the Sydney Morning Herald and others. She is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers and in 2013 completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Western Sydney.

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ISBN 13	9781783523719
ISBN 10	1783523719
Titel	The Pagoda Tree
Autor	Claire Scobie
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Unbound
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-06-08
Seitenanzahl	400
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