{"product_id":"city-of-djinns-9780006375951","title":"City of Djinns","description":"‘Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. ‘Certainly,' replied the Sufi. ‘But you would run away.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted ‘The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns. Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters - from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj - William Dalrymple comes to know the bewildering city intimately.He pursues Delhi's interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem.‘City of Djinns' is an astonishing and sensitive portrait of a city, and confirms William Dalrymple as one of the most compelling explorers of India's past and present.\u003ch2\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller \u003cem\u003eIn Xanadu\u003c\/em\u003e when he was twenty-two. The book won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award; it was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for six years researching his second book, \u003cem\u003eCity of Djinns\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. \u003cem\u003eFrom the Holy Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, his acclaimed study of the demise of Christianity in its Middle Eastern homeland, was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award for 1997; it was also shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. A collection of his writings about India, \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Kali\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Dalrymple is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and in 2002 was awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his ‘outstanding contribution to travel literature’. He wrote and presented the television series \u003cem\u003eStones of the Raj\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIndian Journeys\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002. He is married to the artist Olivia Fraser, and they have three children. They now divide their time between London and Delhi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Dalrymple","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44273509040189,"sku":"9780006375951","price":21.24,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/x1000.jpg?v=1793667141","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/city-of-djinns-9780006375951","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}