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  • Published: 2 August 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141935270
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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A South Indian Journey

The Smile of Murugan




A fascinating adventure that captures southern India's ancient culture and history; and the shrines and temples flocked to by so many for thousands of years

Inspired by a temple astrologer (who had accurately predicted his marriage and the birth of his two daughters), the writer and broadcaster Michael Wood travelled on a magical journey through south-east India.

  • Published: 2 August 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141935270
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
Categories:

About the author

Michael Wood

Michael Wood is the author of Stendhal, America in the Movies, Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction (also available in Pimlico). He writes film and literary criticism for the London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review and other publications. He studied Modern Languages at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was later a Fellow. He taught for along time at Columbia University in New York and then at the University of Exeter. He is currently Professor of English at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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