Sorcerer's Apprentice - Couverture rigide

Shah, Tahir

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0297819399 ISBN 13 : 9780297819394

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998

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black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 323 pp

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Sorcerer's Apprentice is an extraordinary tale of Indian magic. . . India is a land of miracles, where godmen and mystics mesmerise audiences with wondrous feats of magic. In great cities and remote villages alike, these mortal incarnations of the divine turn rods into snakes, drink acid, eat glass, hibernate and even levitate. A quest for the bizarre, wondrous underbelly of the Subcontinent, Shah's travels lift the veil on the East's most puzzling miracles. The Journey of Observation leads him to a cornucopia of characters. Illusionists all, some are immune to snake venom, others speak through oracles, or have the power to transform ordinary water into petrol. Along the way Shah witnesses a 'duel of miracles', crosses paths with an impoverished billionaire, and even meets a part-time god. Revealing confidence tricks and ingenious scams, Sorcerer's Apprentice exposes a side of India that most writers never even imagine exists.

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