Genre: Travel fiction; Title: Maps of Bliss and Rage Maps of Bliss and Rage Free PDF version for reviewers
Antarctica, New Zealand, India, New York City, Malta, Italy, Switzerland, England. Eight countries. Eight strangers. Eight Escapes.
Eight achingly original, wonderfully witty and touchingly tender stories spanning the globe, including:
– The Knives Within. Three teams of spies, from Japan, South Korea and North Korea, attempt to outmanoeuvre the Imperial Household Agency and make contact with the illegitimate princess of the Japanese Imperial Family.
– A Gentle Hand. In a cemetery in Rome, three ghosts – a Chinese doctor’s wife, a Victorian Englishwoman, and an Iranian diplomat – try to calm a new arrival on his first day.
– The End of the Storm in my Hand An Indian grandfather tries to prevent his son, a corrupt police official, from staging an ethnic riot against the city's Muslims.
Genre: Travel fiction;
Title: Maps of Bliss and Rage
Maps of Bliss and Rage
Free PDF version for reviewers
Antarctica, New Zealand, India, New York City,
Malta, Italy, Switzerland, England.
Eight countries. Eight strangers. Eight Escapes.
Eight achingly original, wonderfully witty and touchingly tender stories spanning the globe, including:
– The Knives Within.
Three teams of spies, from Japan, South Korea and North Korea, attempt to outmanoeuvre the Imperial Household Agency and make contact with the illegitimate princess of the Japanese Imperial Family.
– A Gentle Hand.
In a cemetery in Rome, three ghosts – a Chinese doctor’s wife, a Victorian Englishwoman, and an Iranian diplomat – try to calm a new arrival on his first day.
– The End of the Storm in my Hand
An Indian grandfather tries to prevent his son, a corrupt police official, from staging an ethnic riot against the city's Muslims.