Cressida's bed
Edición de la obra Cressida's bed
| Autor | Desmond Barry |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Jonathan Cape |
| Fecha de publicación | 2004 |
| Lugar | London |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 292 |
| ISBN-10 | 0224073486 |
| OCLC | 56826080 |
| LCCN | 2004426762 |
| Número de Cutter | B279c |
Dr Christina Devenish, Suffragist and Theosophist, is running a birth control clinic in Bombay in 1931. When the clinic is burnt down in an independence riot, her father invites her to visit him in Bhutan, where he is an advisor at the court of the Shabdrung, Bhutan's version of the Dalai Lama...She joins a British expedition en route to Bhutan and begins a hungry love affair with the expedition leader, and then when Christina meets the young god king, his effect on her leads to a devastating final act.