For Pepper and Christ
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Author: Keki N. Daruwalla
9780143065814 | PB | pp. 360 | 2009 | Penguin Books
In For Pepper and Christ go on a voyage of discovery. Traversing the ocean from the African coastline to Calicut, and zigzagging through the streets of Cairo, For Pepper and Christ takes the reader on a voyage of discovery.
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In For Pepper and Christ go on a voyage of discovery. Traversing the ocean from the African coastline to Calicut, and zigzagging through the streets of Cairo, For Pepper and Christ takes the reader on a voyage of discovery.
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For a century the Portuguese had been scouring the seas, collecting maps and sending spies along the Red Sea to find out how the Arabs carried on their spice trade with India … the pursuit of a legend can be pretty thankless, but it catches human imagination by the forelock.’
In his first novel noted poet and short story writer Keki N. Daruwalla brings alive a world of tumultuous voyaging during the time of Vas co da Gama-an era when the quest for exotic spices triggered a passionate desire for exploration. Legends of a magnificent Christian dominion, nestled in the heart of the East and ruled by the fabled Prester John, also generated an intense curiosity about the lands bordering the Indian Ocean.
Traversing the ocean from the African coastline to Calicut on the Malabar Coast, and zigzagging through the streets of Cairo, For Pepper and Christ takes the reader on a voyage of discovery with a singular cast of characters-Brother Figuero, the fervent missionary, constantly in a tussle between felt reality and envisioned ideal; Taufiq the eternal voyager, quick to board ship and even quicker to fall in love in a strange land; Ehtesham the artist who cannot stop painting even when his life is in danger; and the Muhtasib, the Zamorin and the Abbott, three men of power, but with vastly different ways of using that power. The flight of silver doves over a church spire causes riots in Egypt; the discord between Islam and Christendom intensifies; and the individual destinies of the characters collide and coalesce in this atlas of shifting geography and looming history to form an intriguing web of power and ambition, humility and sacrifice, greed and betrayal, love and redemption. Blending historical fact with richly imagined fiction, For Pepper and Christ is imbued with the creative brilliance of one of India’s finest poets.
| Author: | Keki N. Daruwalla |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780143065814 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 360 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
About the Author
The author was with the Indian Police Service and retired as Chairman JIC in 1995. His first book of poems, Under Orion, was published in 1970 to be followed by eight more volumes of poetry. He has also published three volumes of short fiction, a novella and two collections of poetry for children.
Daruwalla received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1984 and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Asia in 1987. His latest volume of poetry, Collected Poems, was published by Penguin Books India in 2006. He lives in Delhi.
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