Bazaar
Soliloquies from Hindustan
$38.93
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2027
Summary
As colourful, lively and unstoppable as its subject, Bazaar invites us to travel with Robert Dessaix to past, present and mythical India.
In Bazaar, his new memoir, Robert Dessaix makes four flamboyant, kaleidoscopic forays into obsession, glamour, genius and ritual, calling them ‘choreographed performances of my inner self in an Indian setting’.
Dessaix takes us back to Mogul times to meet Thomas Coryate, a parson’s son from Somerset, who walked from Constantinople to India i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923670211 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923670212 |
| Author: | Robert Dessaix |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
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Robert Dessaix
Robert Dessaix is a writer, translator, and broadcaster. His best-known works include the autobiography A Mother’s Disgrace, the novels Night Letters and Corfu, and the travel memoirs Twilight of Love and Arabesques.
From 1985 to 1995, he presented the weekly ‘Books and Writing’ program on ABC Radio National. His books have been published in a number of languages.
His most recent publications are his memoirs What Days Are For (a meditation on what makes for a good life in the face of death) and The Time of Our Lives (which focuses on ageing well), along with Abracadabra, a collection of his recent writings.
He lives in Hobart, Tasmania.
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