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I.Allan Sealy

Auteur van The Trotter-Nama

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Werken van I.Allan Sealy

The Trotter-Nama (1988) 59 exemplaren
The Everest Hotel (1998) 47 exemplaren
The Brainfever Bird (2003) 15 exemplaren
Red (2006) 15 exemplaren
Zelaldinus: A Masque (2017) 9 exemplaren
Hero: A fable (1990) 8 exemplaren
ASOCA: A Sutra (2021) 6 exemplaren
The Small Wild Goose Pagoda (2014) 4 exemplaren
Wisdom Brings Success (2016) 1 exemplaar
Vision: Seeing is Achieving (2018) 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam
Sealy, Irwin Allan
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Sealy, I. Allan
Sealy, Allan
Geboortedatum
1951
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
India
Geboorteplaats
Allahabad, India
Woonplaatsen
Allahabad, India
Dehradun, India
Opleiding
St. Stephen's College, New Delhi, India

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Somewhere in the foothills of the Himalayas is a town called Drummondganj, where time is measured solely by the seasons. There, on the roof of a crumbling mansion lives a 90-year-old former mountaineer with a wandering mind. The mansion, once the Hotel Everest, is now a shelter run by an order of nuns who also look after the old man- Immanuel Jed- and a motley crew of others.

Ritu, the newest nun, arrives at Everest when the town is in the midst of a political upheaval- the struggle for statehood so familiar in the Indian milieu. That’s not all the upheaval either: Ritu bears a resemblance to Jed’s late wife, and this causes the old man’s mind to come further unhinged. (However, Jed’s mental wanderings are erratic; some days, he is lucid, a great raconteur and quite a wit.) Then there is his young friend Brij, who is a part of the statehood struggle, and who visits him often. And who, on the roof of Everest, among Jed’s bathtubs and other paraphernalia, begins a doomed attraction to the young nun.

The rhythm of life at Everest is then further rippled by the arrival of a young German tourist, Inge, who is on a unique quest- to unearth the history of a dead uncle, a former poet who is buried in the cemetery adjoining Everest. Inge is the fulcrum of the story in some ways. Her mysterious, drug-fueled passions, her abrupt German sense of observation, and her skill at sculpting a new gravestone for her uncle, all intrigue and disturb Everest in ways deeper than the inhabitants realize.

Full review at http://devikamenon.blogspot.com/2011/05/readings-everest-hotel-by-allan-sealy.ht...
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dmenon90 | May 6, 2011 |

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Werken
14
Ook door
1
Leden
176
Populariteit
#121,982
Waardering
½ 3.4
Besprekingen
1
ISBNs
26
Talen
3

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