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Biographical note
Sam Miller was born and brought up in London, but has spent much of his adult life in India. He is a former BBC journalist and is the author of Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity (2009), Blue Guide: India (2012) and A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes (2014). He is also the translator of The Marvellous (But Authentic) Adventures of Captain Corcoran (2016) by Alfred Assollant.A wild, spiralling wonder of a book... the sharpest reflection of the capital since William Dalrymple's <i>City of Djinns</i>... Read this book and laugh, grow and gaze in gob-smacked wonder at India's whirling dreamtown
- Rory Maclean, Guardian
The liveliest of city travelogues, a beguiling introduction to the Indian capital and an irresistible read for even the faintly curious
Literary Review
A chronicle that rivals its subject matter in energy and scope... His talent is dizzying and his narrative a rich accomplishment. I walked miles in Delhi - without moving an inch
The Times
A dizzying, droll travelogue... Miller's multitudinous city snapshots elucidate the paradoxes of gloablisation without judgement, and his tales of urban wandering form a valuable archive of a rapidly transforming city. Miller's forays into city slums are poignant, humanising evocations of Delhi's underside
- Hirsh Sawnhey, Guardian
A thoroughly entertaining book - even down to the countless footnotes - about a fascinating city
Financial Times