Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home

Singh Gee, Alison

ISBN 10: 1250044839 / ISBN 13: 9781250044839

Published by St. Martin's Griffin, 2014

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Synopsis:

A modern-day fairy tale, Where the Peacock Sings is a funny, insightful, and deeply moving chronicle of life in modern India as seen through the author's complex relationship with her husband's ancestral mansion, a century-old, hundred-room ramshackle palace called Mokimpur. Mokimpur is endearingly imperfect, a broken down relic in desperate need of a makeover. Where the Peacocks Sing takes readers on a cross-cultural journey from the manicured gardens of Beverly Hills, to the bustling streets of Hong Kong and finally to the rural Indian countryside as Alison comes to terms with her complicated new family, leaves the modern world behind, and learns the true meaning of home.

About the Author: ALISON SINGH GEE is an award-winning international journalist whose work has been translated into eight languages and has appeared in People, Vanity Fair, In Style, Marie Claire, International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. For eight years, she was a staff features writer/correspondent for People magazine. She won the 1997 Amnesty International Award for Feature Writing for her Asiaweek cover story about child prostitution in Southeast Asia. She is the author of the book Where the Peacocks Sing. Alison lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince,...
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good