The Wonder House

by Justine Hardy

Book Overview

Justine Hardy is an English journalist, a best-selling author, and a filmmaker who's spent much of the past fifteen years living in India. Her American debut, The Wonder House, has crafted an unforgettable love story set in the turbulent region of Kashmir, one of the most beautiful and broken places in the world. On Nagin Lake sits moored a houseboat called The Wonder House, on which Englishwoman, Gracie Singh, has been living out her widowhood since...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802118224
• ISBN13: 9780802118226
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A stunning, deeply moving novel of Kashmir

More vivid, and yet more true to life than any non-fiction account of the war torn mountain paradise of Kashmir this extraordinary book brings the place alive in all its beauty and horror. You get a visceral sense of the gorgeousness of Kashmir: the mountain light on the lakes, the scent of the pine forests, the handsomeness and humor of the people. But it also takes you deep into a brutal counter-insurgency war in a way that is fair to all sides but brings home the human cost of violence. Indeed there are times in 'the Wonder House' when it's all but impossible not to cry. This is one of the most important and powerful novels written about South Asia in many years.