Description
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi’s centuries-old history, revealing an abnormal array of characters along the best way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven “dead” cities of Delhi in addition to the eighth city—these days’s Delhi. Underlying his quest is the legend of the djinns, fire-formed spirits which might be said to assure town’s Phoenix-like regeneration regardless of how repeatedly it’s destroyed. Entertaining, fascinating, and informative, City of Djinns is an impossible to resist blend of research and adventure.