Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #946568 in Books
• Published on: 1997-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 960 pages

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!
Due to the book's size and the fact that I'd never been very interested in India, I'd been putting off reading The Far Pavilions for some time(my Mum had bought it for me at a boot fair as she'd loved it). However it is now on my mental list of all time favourite books. I absolutely loved every page of it. As well as having a fabulous fabulous story/characters etc (many parts of which are based on real life) I feel I've learnt so much about a culture that had originally been a total mystery to me. A must read if ever there was one! I'd give it more stars if I could!

The best book about British India ever!
I saw this book and bought it on the spur of the moment, it then spent the next few months on my "to be read pile" and finally one dull day I picked it up and then could not put it down, its such a great story.

This book pictures British India so well in my opininon and combines history, action, romance and war effortlessly. When I was teaching I would re tell some of the stories to my classes e.g. the rescue from Suttee fire and the Guides last bloody stand in Kabul.

If you are interested in British India and would like a book which feels like Kipling meets Sharpe then you must read this classic.

Probably my favourite book ever
This is probably my favourite book of all time, and one I keep coming back to again and again. Beautifully written, emotionally gripping, exciting and above all a gorgeous, gorgeous story.

MM Kaye's other novels are good but not outstanding, and the three autobiographies are very entertaining (although she has harboured a few grudges against unkind nannies and the like for half a century and more!) yet with The Far Pavilions she seems to have touched genius. I am sure this will be a classic for decades to come, and I can't praise it highly enough.