The Wonder House

by Justine Hardy

Book Overview

"Rich with sensual detail, making for vivid impressions." -- Publishers WeeklyJustine Hardy is an English journalist, a best-selling author, and a filmmaker who has spent much of the past fifteen... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802118224
• ISBN13: 9780802118226
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A stunning, deeply moving novel of Kashmir

More vivid, and yet more true to life than any non-fiction account of the war torn mountain paradise of Kashmir this extraordinary book brings the place alive in all its beauty and horror. You get a visceral sense of the gorgeousness of Kashmir: the mountain light on the lakes, the scent of the pine forests, the handsomeness and humor of the people. But it also takes you deep into a brutal counter-insurgency war in a way that is fair to all sides but brings home the human cost of violence. Indeed there are times in 'the Wonder House' when it's all but impossible not to cry. This is one of the most important and powerful novels written about South Asia in many years.