CHASING THE MONK’S SHADOW
A personal chronicle of an epic journey on the Silk Road from China to India, through fabled oasis cities of China’s Xinjiang and Central Asia, across now-vanished Buddhist sites in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, following in the footsteps of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang (7th Century) The Deccan Herald called it “…a dazzling, mesmeric piece of literature”. Available as hardcover, paperback or kindle. Published as Par-Dela Les Montagnes Celestes: Un Voyage sur les traces de Xuanzang, le moine pelerin (Les Editions Noir sur Blanc) in 2011.
“One chilly morning deep in a village in China, a woman gave birth as snowflakes fell over fallow fields and the river Chen purled and looped...”