Author: Elaine Williams
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 312
ISBN/UPC (if available): 1401034624
Description
Seeking the Taj is a beautifully written story, very sensual with a dreamlike feel to it. A haunting story, with beautiful imagery, the rich echoes of history and the fairy tale ending.
In Seeking The Taj, Elaine Williams evokes a spirited young woman’s immersion into the mysterious society of deposed Indian royals where crumbling palaces hold dark secrets and The Beatles swarmed into India, Garnet, a young poet with a painful past, is traveling in India to write about the empress who inspired the Taj Mahal. Burdened on the trip by the brilliant, half-mad Niles, at the Taj Mahal she encounters Ravi Singh, an exuberant, charismatic prince descended from a dynasty of eccentric royals. Ravi pursues her and although she is deeply drawn to the prince, the near tragic assault she endured as an adolescent left her fearful of romantic entanglements.
But in Agra she is befriended by Ravi’s royal auntie, a wise and worldly woman who seized her freedom in a repressive society, and has much to teach Garnet.
Contents
India Taj Mahal, Agra
Sailship Point
Agra, Sushila’s Villa
Gajpur Palace, India
Gajpur, India