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My Son's Father
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My Son's Father
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Variety of Abscences
This omnibus edition brings together three classic autobiographical books by Dom Moraes, arguably India's living poet in english. Gone away, My son's father and never at home, each published to immense critical acclaim, constitute a fascinating story of a young man's passage from a traumatic childhood and adolescence to manhood.
Gone Away
Introduced by Jeet Thayli, author of Booker Prize shortlisted novel Narcopolis. At the age of 20, Dom Moraes - already a celebrated poet who would go on to be regarded as one of India's finest writers - returned to his native India after finishing education in England. After spending time in Delhi, meeting Jawaharlal Nehru and the young Dalai Lama, he embarked on a meandering journey through northern India, Nepal and Sikkim at a time of political tension and the threat of invasion by China. Brilliant, curious and precocious, seldom without a drink in his hand, he chanced his way into some extraordinary situations - including staying in a Nepalese palace with a resident bear and being shot at and chased by Chinese soldiers. Gone Away details these adventures with a poet's eye for detail, and the luminosity and humour for which Moraes was known.
Poems, 1955-1965
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Never at Home
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Out of God's Oven
On the social problems of India in last two decades; based on the author's travel experience.
From East and West
Articles previously published in various periodicals.
Serendip
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Under Something of a Cloud
'He painted pictures in vivid colours to the songs of flutes.'--Khushwant Singh Under Something of a Cloud spans a lifetime of Dom Moraes' work to select the very best of his travel writing. Featured in this volume is a vividly recollected childhood tour of Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Australia with his father, Frank Moraes, and his mother, Beryl, who was then rapidly sliding into madness; a darkly comic account of a trip to the Sikkim-Tibet border, amidst rumours that the Chinese would soon attack India; and a thrilling adventure among the Dani tribe in Indonesia who, at that time, were reputed to be cannibals. Also included here are Moraes' sojourns among dacoits in the Chambal valley, o...
