- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9780099526742
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $24.99
Delhi
Adventures in a Megacity
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9780099526742
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $24.99
The liveliest of city travelogues, a beguiling introduction to the Indian capital and an irresistible read for even the faintly curious
Literary Review
An erudite, comical portrait-of-a-city...an entertaining and thoughtful book
Evening Standard
For all its entertaining eccentricities Delhi is careful to maintain a strong sense of the city's sad heritage of religious factionalism, pollution, rioting, poverty and crime.
New Statesman
A quirky and affectionate account
Siddhartha Deb, Times Literary Supplement
Teems with strange stories and bizarre quiddities, rich discoveries and unexpected diversions....both a quest and a love letter, and one which is as pleasingly eccentric and anarchic as its subject
William Dalrymple, Scotsman
A thoroughly entertaining book - even down to the countless footnotes - about a fascinating city
Financial 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 wild, spiralling wonder of a book... the sharpest reflection of the capital since William Dalrymple's City of Djinns... Read this book and laugh, grow and gaze in gob-smacked wonder at India's whirling dreamtown
Rory Maclean, Guardian
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 uniquely revealing travelogue, closer in spirit to WG Sebald and Ian Sinclair than the usual nostalgia-fest or trend-hunting of Britons' books about India.
Independent
Insatiably curious and pleasingly thorough... The Delhi in his writing is a diverse, energised dreamscape, filled with quirks and wonders, and this is among the best I've read for a cross-section of a city.
Independent on Sunday