It is 1870 – in Parkgate, a little village in the north of Ireland. The people from the village are very excited. They know that the man from Peru wants cats. He is coming to visit Parkgate. All the people come with their cats. Their cats are very fat. But where is the man from Peru?
As autumn descends upon Three Pines, a stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store at the center of town. No one admits to knowing the murdered man, but as secrets are revealed, chaos begins to close in on the beloved bistro owner, Olivier. What past did he leave behind, and why has he buried himself in this tiny village?
The Ghost of The Mountains written by Sujatha Padmanabhan, is a story about the residents of Ang, a small village in the Himalayas, Ladakh and their unusual vistor.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 18 November 2011
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In An Antique Land
In the 1980s Amitav Ghosh moved into a converted chicken coop. It was on the roof of a house in Lataifa, a tiny village in Egypt. During the day he poured over medieval letters sent to India from Cairo by Arab merchants. In the evenings he shut out the bellowing of his fat landlord by turning up the volume of his transistor radio and wrote stories based on what he had seen in the village.
