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The Root and the Flower
[Paperback - 2001]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Military Fiction - Historical Fiction
Publisher: Nyrb Classics | ISBN: 9780940322608 | Pages: 656
Shipping Weight: .624 | Dimensions: 4.96 x 1.65 x 7.94 inches

Set in the war-torn world of Mughal India and first published in the gathering darkness of the 1930s, the three novels collected in The Root and the Flower are stories of intrigue, murder, and romance; of Tantric abandonment and Buddhist renunciation; of emotional delirium and spiritual adventure. This enthralling visionary trilogy is, as Penelope Fitzgerald remarks in her introduction, a "strange masterpiece," and one of the unsung glories of modern literature.

Leo (Leopold) Hamilton Myers was born in Leckhampton House, Cambridge into a cultured family; his father was the writer Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901) and his mother the photographer Eveleen Tennant (1856-1937). He was named after his godfather, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. His trilogy/tetralogy The Root and the Flower, set in India at the time of Akbar, is his major work and was recognised by the award of the 1935 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

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