Sinclair stevenson c (2 Ergebnisse)

292pp, a prior owner's bookplate laid down, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 208 pages. The story has its origins in the sixties, when Mehta by chance finds his fath er weeping uncontrollably on his mother?s shoulder during a New York dinner pa rty. As a result, the son begins to unravel a family mystery that takes him on a painful and revealing voyage into his father?s British past in Simla, the mag ical hill station. Step-by-step, he is forced to confront his father?s passion ate clandestine affair with Rasil, an exquisite beauty who in her teens was abdu cted from her poor family and raped. She was subsequently rescued by a Hindu phi lanthropist, only to end up trapped in an abusive marriage to a rich businessman . Mehta?s exploration of his father?s love affair proves painful, as the son realizes that the entanglement, a passing episode in sixty-one years of a lovin g marriage, had shattering psychological side effects on his mother?a close fr iend of Rasil?s?and also on his own life. The Red Letters is Mehta?s maste rpiece, a work of extraordinary intensity that perfectly re-creates the exotic, closed world of British India.…