Golden Afternoon (The Autobiography of M. M. Kaye, Vol. 2)

by M.M. Kaye

Book Overview

The author continues her autobiography with stories from her days as a British boarding school resident to her journey to India and beyond. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140263209
• ISBN13: 9780140263206
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

charming and nostalgic

What a terrific book--nostalgic, romantic, funnny, poignant. I was utterly charmed once again by Ms. Kaye's writing. Her descriptions of visits to the Taj Mahal and spring in Kashmir are beautiful. I can't wait to read "Enchanted Evening."

Simply Amazing!

This book is thoroughly enjoyable, with M. M. Kaye describing her idlyic days in India in a wonderfully interesting, humorous way, which makes this book a pleasure to read and a must own!

Wonderful!

Ms. Kaye has the most wonderful way of describing scenes, colors, and events of an era never to be seen again. Her family led a story-book life of adventure and she makes it look so easy to overcome the forces of nature that were part of living there with very few, if any, modern conveniences. It was a delicious read and I hope Ms. Kaye is busily at work on the next book of her travels in China! I am grateful for this journey back into a gentler, quieter time.

An evocative memoir of a time lost long ago

At long last, the sequel to Sun in the Morning -- and as always, M.M. Kaye's writing is evocative, sumptuous, and addictive. (The Far Pavilions is one of the two books I always travel with -- the other is Gone With the Wind -- because I can start reading anywhere and become totally immersed, no matter how many times I've read it.) No one is better at evoking that time-lost period before the Second World War; the details are not only fascinating but reveal to us moderns what the world once was like (which in British India in many cases seems rather closely to resemble E.F. Benson's town of Tilling...). Since I owe not only my interest in, but my several-hundred-volume library on, India to reading The Far Pavilions, I must admit a certain partiality here -- and a burning desire to read the sequel to Golden Afternoon.