{"product_id":"9780006375951","title":"City of Djinns","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Dalrymple, William \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 11\/04\/1994,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages, 15 b\/w illus,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780006375951,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Could you show me a djinn?’ I asked. ‘Certainly,’ replied the Sufi. ‘But you would run away.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He pursues Delhi’s interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40606512414764,"sku":"9780006375951","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780006375951_66896356-cd9c-44d1-bf1b-e06c02730592.jpg?v=1759672123","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9780006375951","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}