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by Mary Margaret Kaye (Author) "Ashton Hilary Akbar Pelham-Martyn was born in a camp near the crest of a pass in the Himalayas, and subsequently christened in a patent canvas..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 960 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; New Ed edition (30 Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140048332
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140048339
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 42,022 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. The Far Pavilions is a story of 19th Century India, when the thin patina of English rule held down dangerously turbulent undercurrents. It is a story about and English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu and his passionate, but dangerous love for an Indian princess. It’s a story of divided loyalties, of tender camaraderie, of greedy imperialism and of the clash between east and west. To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M.M. Kaye brings her quite exceptional gift of immediacy and meticulous historical accuracy, plus her insight into the human heart.

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M. M. Kaye was born in India and spent most of her childhood and much of her early married life in that country. Her ties with India are strong: her grandfather, father, brother and husband all served the Raj, and her grandfather's first cousin, Sir John Kaye, wrote the standard accounts of the Indian Mutiny and the first Afghan War. When India achieved independence her husband joined the British Army, and for the next nineteen years she followed the drum to all sorts of exciting places she would not otherwise have seen, including Kenya, Zanzibar, Egypt, Cyprus and Berlin. M. M. Kaye is best-known for her highly successful historical novels, including the bestselling The Far Pavilions, Shadow of the Moon and Trade Wind, all published by Penguin, and for her detective novels, which include Death in Berlin, Death in Kenya and Death in Cyprus (also published by Penguin in one volume entitled Murder Abroad), and Death in Zanzibar, Death in Kashmir and Death in the Andamans, also collected together in one volume. Penguin also publish the first volume of her autobiography, The Sun in the Morning. The second volume, Golden Afternoon, was published by Viking. M. M. Kaye has also written a children's story, The Ordinary Princess (1991).
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, 3 April 2006
By Ms. J. Bright "Squirrel Jess" (Kent, England) - See all my reviews
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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!
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book about British India ever!, 28 Sep 2006
By SJ SMART "Smartie" (London) - See all my reviews
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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.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Probably my favourite book ever, 17 July 2001
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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.

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