Shaped as a quest narrative, Journey Back to Peshawar vividly recalls author Rona Murray's early years in the India of the British Raj and her return fifty years later to the very different India of the nineteen eighties. Throughout the book, the clarity of the author's vision acts as a fascinating foil to the essential recognition of mystery which has always been at the heart of India's identity. With humour, compassion and acute sensory perception, sights, sounds, smells and tactile images are evoked; human dilemmas are encountered; incidents both horrifying and ridiculous are confronted. Beautifully written, this is a riveting story of India then and now.

photographs, 304 pp
ISBN 1-55039-034-1, $14.95