The Far Pavilions
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140048339 (0140048332)
Publish date: May 17th 1979
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 960
Edition language: English
Read through page 332, which is only about a third of the way through this extremely long book, and simply didn't feel any urge to continue - I got as far as I did due to reading it on an airplane, where you kind of want shitty page-turners. It's perhaps not quite trashy, but nor did the plot or cha...
bookshelves: classic, historical-fiction, re-read, winter-20102011, published-1978, colonial-overlords, epic-proportions, subcontinent Recommended for: everyone Read from February 01 to 25, 2011, read count: 3 Epic and sweeping. Third visit to those pavilions and this time it's via BBC:http://ww...
This is a stand alone novel, but it could have been a series. It is long enough to be a series and there were at least a couple of spots, perhaps three, where the book could have been split and made into a trilogy. It is an interesting story of the British occupation of India with plenty of battles,...
A wonderful book, written by an author who obviously has a great love of the country and it's 19th century history. Another wonderfully evocative book based on the history of a young man orphaned at a young age and brought up as a native and then swept up in the "Great Game". Lots of echoes of Rud...
This book probably rates more than 2 stars but it really dragged for me - and I happen to like long epic stories! I loved the setting. The description of the people and period in India and Afghanistan was fascinating; the rambling soap opera that was Ash’s life, not so much. It just didn't hold my i...
Log in with Facebook 
![The Far Pavilions [ Pavillions ] - M. M. Kaye](http://booklikes.com/photo/max/100/150/upload/books/a/4/a40df450c6bde1d030d90732e04d87e5.jpg)
