 An Indian Attachment
Sarah Lloyd Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0 907871 12 7
Area of interest: India
Genre: British Abroad, Travel Date of first publication: 1984
Eland publication date: January 1, 1992
Price: £10.99
Part travel book, part love story, An Indian Attachment tells of the two years Sarah Lloyd spent in rural India, in love with a placid, beautiful, opium-addicted Sikh.
Living first in a remote mud-built Punjabi village, they later moved to be part of the impoverished community of a dubious holy man, where they lived in a minute, windowless, brick hut on around fifty pence a day. No other outsider has written so convincingly about life as the vast majority of Indians know it.
biography of Sarah Lloyd
extract from An Indian Attachment
"A remarkable achievement: beautifully written, sympathetic without being starry-eyed…lots of real wisdom and sensitivity and delicious quiet humour."
Dervla Murphy, Times Literary Supplement
"Sarah Lloyd has produced a rare and important document. Without abandoning her Western critical faculties, she has written sympathetically, as an insider, of life as the vast majority of Indians know it. In this sense, An Indian Attachment is the truest book about the subcontinent today that I have read."
Geoffrey Moorhouse
"The fascination of the book stems from Lloyd's ability to give an insider's view of rural Indian society with an outsider's objectivity."
Sunday Times
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