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'I return to Delhi as I return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had my fill of whoring in foreign lands...' Thus begins Khushwant Singh's vast, erotic, irrelevant magnum opus on the city of Delhi. The principal narrator of the saga, which extends over six hundred years, is a bawdy, ageing reprobate who loves Delhi as much as he does the hijda whore Bhagmati-half man, half woman with sexual inventiveness and energy of both the sexes. Travelling through time, space and history to 'discover' his beloved city, the narrator meets a myriad of people-poets and princes, saints and sultans,…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2010Penguin Books · 404 pages · 9788184751116
- Other · English · 1990Himalayan Books · 144 pages · 9788170020417
- Other · English · 1990Penguin Books · 391 pages · 9780140126198
- Other · English · 1989Viking · 391 pages · 9780670834099
Description and travelPictorial worksFiction, generalIntersex peopleIntersex people--fictionPr9499.3.s53 d45 1990823Fiction