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In his first novel known poet and short story copy writer Keki N. Daruwalla brings alive an environment of tumultuous voyaging during the time of Vasco Da Gama - a time when the quest for exotic spices activated a passionate desire to have exploration. Legends of an impressive Christian dominion, nestled in the heart and soul of the East and ruled by the fabled prester John, also made an intense curiosity about the lands bordering the Indian Sea. Traversing the ocean from the African coastline to Calicut on the Malabar Coast, and zig-zagging through the pavements of Cairo, For Pepper and Christ requires the listener on the voyage of finding with one cast of heroes - Brother Figueiro, the fervent missionary, constantly in a tussle between thought fact and envisioned ideal; Taufiq The Eternal Voyager, quick to board dispatch and even quicker to land in love in a strange land; Ehtesham the designer who cannot stop painting, even when his life is in peril; and the Muhtasib, the Zamorin, and the Abbott, three men of ability, but with vastly different ways of using that ability. The trip of silver dover over the church spire triggers riots in Egypt; the discord between Islam and Christianity intensifies; and the individual destinies of the heroes collide and coalesce in this atlas of moving geography and looming record to form an intriguing web of ability and ambition, humility and sacrifice, greed and betrayal, love and redemption. Mixing historical fact with richly imagined fiction, For Pepper and Christ is imbued with the creative brilliance of 1 of India's finest poets.
