{"product_id":"the-small-wild-goose-pagoda","title":"The Small Wild Goose Pagoda","description":"The Small Wild Goose Pagoda is a natural and social history of 433 square yards of India. On this piece ofand in the foothills of the Himalaya, the Sealy family have a small brick house with one-and-a-half bedrooms, two-and-a-half gardens, front, back and side, an old Fiat, an internetink with the world, and a terrace roof for walking on under the sky. Here”surrounded by trees:itchi, rosewood, magnolia, silk cotton, jacaranda, a reluctant pear, a profusely flowering peach”Allan Sealyooks back on hisife as he turns sixty and goes from Householder to Forest Dweller (the two middle stages in theife of a man - as set out in Indian philosophical tradition).ending depth and texture to a narrative written in the form of an almanack is his experience of building, after a visit to China, a pagoda on his roof. As the pagoda takes shape we are introduced to a host of extraordinary characters who drift in and out of the 433 square yards: Dhani, family retainer and mali, bent in half by age; Habilis, master brick-layer and contractor with a roving eye; Beauty, part of Habilis''s crew, who may or may not be hisover; Victor, stoic assistant to Habilis. In this remarkable book, his first in a decade, award-winning novelist and travel writer, Irwin Allan Sealy, gives us an evocative account of the drama of small townife; at the same time it is an extraordinary meditation on work, family history, nature, Indian society, and the passage of time.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57220034724222,"sku":"NW9789383064489","price":23.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9789383064489.jpg?v=1778571271","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/the-small-wild-goose-pagoda","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}