{"product_id":"phgnl48krfcs","title":"The Small Wild Goose Pagoda by Irwin Allan Sealy [Hardcover]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Small Wild Goose Pagoda is a natural and social history of 433 square yards in India. On this piece of land in the foothills of the Himalayas, the Sealy family have a small brick house with one-and-a-half bedrooms, two-and-a-half gardens, front, back, and side, an old Fiat, an internet link with the world, and a terrace roof for walking on under the sky. Here—surrounded by trees: litchi, rosewood, magnolia, silk cotton, jacaranda, a reluctant pear, a profusely flowering peach—Allan Sealy looks back on his life as he turns sixty and goes from Householder to Forest Dweller (the two middle stages in the life of a man - as set out in Indian philosophical tradition). Lending depth and texture to a narrative written in the form of an almanac is his experience of building, after a visit to China, a pagoda on his roof. As the pagoda takes shape we are introduced to a host of extraordinary characters who drift in and out of the 433 square yards: Dhani, family retainer and mali, bent in half by age; Habilis, master brick-layer and contractor with a roving eye; Beauty, part of Habilis’s crew, who may or may not be his lover; Victor, stoic assistant to Habilis…. In this remarkable book, his first in a decade, award-winning novelist and travel writer, Irwin Allan Sealy, gives us an evocative account of the drama of small-town life; at the same time, it is an extraordinary meditation on work, family history, nature, Indian society, and the passage of time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Rupa Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48327945879802,"sku":"PHGNL48KRFCS","price":474.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/PHGNL48KRFCS_Cover_1.jpg?v=1730894727","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/phgnl48krfcs","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}