![]() ![]() He returns to India, falls in love with an Indian princess and must struggle with competing cultural alliances. Its central character is an Indian-born Britisher named Ashton Pelham-Martyn who is orphaned as a boy during a bloody uprising, sheltered by his Indian nurse and then raised in England to be an officer and a gentleman. ![]() Kaye wrote the book during a 15-year span in which she struggled with cancer and made frequent moves around Africa and Asia for her husband's military career. She saw herself not as an outsider in India but "merely a member of a different caste in a land full of castes." Her fiction often was praised for providing a nuanced look at Indian life while intriguing readers with depictions of desire, intrigue and ethnic conflict.īy far her most successful volume was "The Far Pavilions" (1978), a 960-page opus set in 19th-century India. Kaye, who sometimes wrote as Mollie Kaye or Mollie Hamilton, was born to British parents in pre-independence India. Kaye, 95, the author of lushly and lustily detailed books set in Africa and India, including the bestseller "The Far Pavilions," died Jan. ![]()
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