by Louis Bromfield · EDICIONES DEL VIENTO,S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496964068
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Set in Bombay during the 1930s, this novel by Louis Bromfield explores the lives of ex-pats and Indian royals, as well as the Indians who work for them. Through a chance encounter on a ship and another on a train, several characters converge at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay, where their destinies intertwine amidst the exotic backdrop of colonial India. The story offers a fascinating look at the social and cultural complexities of the time.
Louis Bromfield was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for Early Autumn, founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement.
