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DelhiKhushwant Singh
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Delhi

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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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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
PaperbackPenguin Books20104049788184751116
EditionHimalayan Books19901449788170020417
EditionPenguin Books19903919780140126198
EditionViking19893919780670834099
Description and travelPictorial worksFiction, generalIntersex peopleIntersex people--fictionPr9499.3.s53 d45 1990823Fiction