The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love: 'You won’t find any other love story that is so beautiful’ Grazia

ISBN-13: 9781786072085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Per J. Andersson; Anna Holmwood

Opis

Pradyumna Kumar, aka PK, was born into a poor, untouchable family in a small village in eastern India. Throughout his childhood he kept a palm leaf bearing an astrologer s prophecy: You will marry a girl who is not from the village, not even from the country; she will be musical, own a jungle and be born under the sign of the ox . Incredibly, it was a prophecy that would come true, but only after the most remarkable journey that would take PK, armed with only a handful of paintbrushes and a second-hand bicycle, from the jungles of eastern India to the forests of Sweden. Part reportage, part travel narrative and part memoir, The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love is the extraordinary, life-affirming true story that has captured imaginations around the world."

Recenzje

'A feel-good story that's so feel-good it makes other feel-good stories feel bad.'

New York Times Book Review

O autorze

Per J Andersson is a writer and journalist. He is the co-founder of Sweden's most well-known traveller's magazine Vagabond, and has been visiting India for the last 30 years. He lives in Stockholm.

Anna Holmwood translates literature from Chinese and Swedish to English. She was awarded one of the first British Centre for Literary Translation mentorship awards in 2010 and is currently working on a major series of Chinese martial arts novels by Jin Yong for MacLehose Press. In 2011 she co-founded the Emerging Translators' Network to support early career translators, and was elected to the UK Translators Association committee in 2012. She lives in China.