The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love: 'You wont find any other love story that is so beautiful Grazia
By (Author) Per J Andersson
Translated by Anna Holmwood
Oneworld Publications
Oneworld Publications
1st December 2017
5th October 2017
B FORMAT
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Memoirs
True stories: general
Autobiography: general
Travel writing
910.4
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
Pradyumna Kumar, aka PK, was born into a poor, untouchable family in a small village in eastern India. Throughout his childhood he kept a palm leaf bearing an astrologer's prophecy: 'You will marry a girl who is not from the village, not even from the country; she will be musical, own a jungle and be born under the sign of the ox'. Incredibly, it was a prophecy that would come true, but only after the most remarkable journey that would take PK, armed with only a handful of paintbrushes and a second-hand bicycle, from the jungles of eastern India to the forests of Sweden.
Part reportage, part travel narrative and part memoir, The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love is the extraordinary, lifeaffirming true story that has captured imaginations around the world.
'A feel-good story thatssofeel-good it makes other feel-good stories feel bad.'
* New York Times Book Review *'A wonderful love story.'
* National Geographics Best Books of 2017 *'A beautiful, epic tale of love and perseverance.'
* Booklist *Charmingepica journey repeatedly facilitated by the kindness of strangers, but also fraught with danger and pitfalls[a] 7,000-mile journey across continents, lasting almost five months all in the name of love.
* Daily Mail *'Often filled with sumptuous prose.'
* Publishers Weekly *[This] is one of those genuinely illuminating stories that come along once in a while. At heart an against-all-odds love story, this wonderful book does so much to explain why Indian society is the way it is.The story of PK, growing up an 'untouchable' at a time when such labels should have been abolished, istouching, harrowing and ultimately enlightening. The writing is humorous and tender, the cast of characters joyous, and best of all it's all true.
* Vaseem Khan, author of The Baby Ganesh Detective Agency Series *A must-read because you wont find any other love story that is so beautiful, touching, and above all true
* Grazia *'This is a story of human connection that spans continents, class, and race.'
* Library Journal *Per J Andersson is a writer and journalist. He is the co-founder of Sweden's most well-known traveller's magazine Vagabond, and has been visiting India for the last 30 years.