La voz literaria de M. M. Kaye está profundamente moldeada por sus años formativos en la India, una tierra que resuena a lo largo de su evocadora narrativa. Sus historias transportan a menudo a los lectores a escenarios históricos ricamente detallados, explorando temas de intersección cultural y viajes personales con un estilo distintivo. Kaye posee una habilidad única para crear mundos inmersivos, combinando un detalle meticuloso con arcos de personajes convincentes. Su prosa captura la esencia del lugar y el tiempo, ofreciendo una exploración profunda y cautivadora de la experiencia humana.
Crustacea, Prince Amy's cross Fairy Godmother, gave her goddaughter a curious christening present. 'You shall be ordinary!' she cried. But Her Serene and Royal Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne grew up to have the most extraordinary adventures . . .
Tells the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married; and of Captain Alex Randall, her escort and protector, who knows that Winter's husband to be has become a debauched wreck of a man.
A magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. The Far Pavilions is a story of 19th Century India, when the thin patina of English rule held down dangerously turbulent undercurrents. It is a story about and English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu and his passionate, but dangerous love for an Indian princess. It's a story of divided loyalties, of tender camaraderie, of greedy imperialism and of the clash between east and west. To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M.M. Kaye brings her quite exceptional gift of immediacy and meticulous historical accuracy, plus her insight into the human heart.
Miranda Brand is visiting Germany for what is supposed to be a month's vacation. But from the moment that Brigadier Brindley relates the story about a fortune in lost diamonds--a story in which Miranda herself figures in an unusual way--the vacation atmosphere becomes transformed into something more ominous. And when murder strikes on the night train to Berlin, Miranda finds herself unwillingly involved in a complex chain of events that will soon throw her own life into peril. Set against a background of war-scarred Berlin in the early 1950s, Death in Berlin is a consummate mystery from one of the finest storytellers of our time.
When Sarah Parrish journeys to Gulmarg, a vacation ski resort in the mountains above the valley of Kashmir, she finds herself involved in danger, intrigue, and multiple murder
Twenty-year-old Amanda Derrington is on an extended cruise with her uncle when she decides to make a short trip to the sun-washed island of Cyprus. But even before the ship arrives in the port, there is a suspicious death. Once the passengers reach the island, it soon becomes clear that the death was in fact an act of murder. What Amanda had meant to be a pleasant excursion quickly takes a turn for the worse in M. M. Kaye's Death in Cyprus , a classic novel of suspense and romance by one of our most celebrated writers.
Set against the backdrop of the alluring Indian Ocean islands, the story follows Copper Randal as she uncovers the unsettling truths hidden beneath the surface of paradise. Alongside her friend Valerie, the stepdaughter of the Islands' Chief Commissioner, they experience a chilling turn of events during a hurricane-struck picnic, leading to a gripping and unexpected climax. The narrative explores themes of innocence shattered by danger and the contrast between beauty and menace in a tropical setting.
Dany Ashton is invited to vacation at her stepfather's home in Zanzibar and finds herself caught up in a search for hidden gold with a group of houseguests that includes a ruthless murderer
Set against the backdrop of post-uprising Kenya, the story unfolds on a Rift Valley estate where Victoria and her family face lingering horrors. Initially sparked by the haunting of a poltergeist, the tension escalates into brutal murder within their tight-knit community. As passions flare, the presence of a cunning killer looms large, intertwining the supernatural with the sinister, and revealing the dark undercurrents of human nature in the aftermath of violence.
Vzdálené vrcholky hor má mnoho lidí v paměti jako romantický televizní film o zakázané lásce anglického důstojníka a indické princezny. Slavný román, který se stal předlohou filmu a který se nyní opožděně dostává do rukou českých čtenářů, je však mnohem rozsáhlejší a autorka v něm se strhujícími podrobnostmi líčí příběh, v němž se osud jednotlivce prolíná s osudem celé země. Hlavní hrdina Ashton, ačkoli čistokrevný Angličan, strávil první čtyři roky života na cestách po Indii se svým otcem. Když však otec náhle zemřel na choleru, dítěte se ujala indická chůva Síta, a protože zanedlouho propuklo krvavé povstání sipáhíů, ze strachu o Ashův život ho začala vydávat za svého syna. Z Ashtona Pelham-Martyna se tak stal indický chlapec Ašók, člen domácnosti vládce knížectví Gulkót a společník jeho dětí. Později ho však okolnosti přinutí stát se opět Angličanem a do Indie se vrací už jako poručík britské armády. A jedním z jeho prvních úkolů je na žádost maháradži z Karidkótu zajistit hladký průběh cesty jeho dvou sester do Rádžpútány, kde se mají provdat za bithórského ránu. Vzhledem k tomu, že doprovod princezen čítá několik tisíc osob a stovky zvířat včetně několika slonů, není to úkol snadný. A to Ash ještě netuší, že Karidkót je nové jméno Gulkótu, kde prožil dětství, a jedna z princezen je jeho stará přítelkyně
