Golden Afternoon [Audio Cassette]

M.M. Kaye (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2000

In this second volume of her autobiography, Kaye returns to India and resurrects a way of life that has long since passed into history. It is 1927 and, after studying in England, nineteen-year-old Mollie Kaye is reunited with India, the country where she spent her early years. As an awkward girl with a vivacious and intrepid mother, Kaye seeks comfort in her Indian friends, her sister and father, her talent for watercolors, and her ongoing love affair with India itself. She vividly recreates all the richness of the Raj, the complex ceremonies of high-caste Indian life, and the beauty of a Kashmir spring. As she has in such novels as THE FAR PAVILIONS, she lovingly brings to life the people and glorious terrain of the India she knew so well.

"No one is better at recalling that lost time before the Second World War...evocative, sumptuous and addictive. (amazon.com)

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About the Author

M.M. Kaye was born in India where she spent much of her childhood. After attending school in England, she returned to India and lived there throughout her early married life. Her best-selling novels of India include The Far Pavilions, Shadows of the Moon, and Trade Wind. The first volume of her autobiography, The Sun in the Morning, was published in 1990 by St. Martin's Press. She lives in England. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. (June 1, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0736654380
• ISBN-13: 978-0736654388
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,840,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An evocative memoir of a time lost long ago, December 19, 1998

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This review is from: Golden Afternoon : Volume II of the Autobiography of M. M. Kaye (Hardcover)

At long last, the sequel to Sun in the Morning -- and as always, M.M. Kaye's writing is evocative, sumptuous, and addictive. (The Far Pavilions is one of the two books I always travel with -- the other is Gone With the Wind -- because I can start reading anywhere and become totally immersed, no matter how many times I've read it.) No one is better at evoking that time-lost period before the Second World War; the details are not only fascinating but reveal to us moderns what the world once was like (which in British India in many cases seems rather closely to resemble E.F. Benson's town of Tilling...). Since I owe not only my interest in, but my several-hundred-volume library on, India to reading The Far Pavilions, I must admit a certain partiality here -- and a burning desire to read the sequel to Golden Afternoon.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars charming and nostalgic, May 20, 2001

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This review is from: Golden Afternoon : Volume II of the Autobiography of M. M. Kaye (Hardcover)

What a terrific book--nostalgic, romantic, funnny, poignant. I was utterly charmed once again by Ms. Kaye's writing. Her descriptions of visits to the Taj Mahal and spring in Kashmir are beautiful. I can't wait to read "Enchanted Evening."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Amazing!, February 14, 2001

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This review is from: Golden Afternoon : Volume II of the Autobiography of M. M. Kaye (Hardcover)

This book is thoroughly enjoyable, with M. M. Kaye describing her idlyic days in India in a wonderfully interesting, humorous way, which makes this book a pleasure to read and a must own!