Review Seemingly covering disparate topics, Baker beautifully connects them all with an incisive, clear writing style and sharp descriptions of the terrain. (Kirkus Starred Review)Love, war, politics, psychoanalysis, poetry, Calcutta and, especially, the Himalayas - Deborah Baker's meticulously researched account of India and Britain in the forties reads like the very best of novels. (Siddhartha Deb)Deborah Baker combines a novelistic alertness to the inner life with an anthropologist's understanding of multiple cultures and a historian's eye for major events. The result, yet again, is a continuously absorbing and stimulating book, which enlarges the cultural and political history of the mid-20th century even as it grippingly relates the adventures of a few men and women. (Pankaj Mishra) About the Author Deborah Baker is the author of Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly, In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1994, A Blue Hand: The Beats in India and The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in the nonfiction category in 2011. She lives in the USA and India.
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