“ Any reviewer can find something wrong with a book, if s/he tries hard enough ”

“ The book is so beautifully and deftly written, the romance so touching and piquant without falling into bathos, that it would, to me be similar to picking at the lovely haikus interspersed herein, stylistically complementing the lyrical writing ”

“ Yes, as one reviewer has pointed out, it is more memoir than what is called travel literature-though the boundaries between the two have always seemed blurry to me at best ”

“ This book will be enjoyed most by lovers of poetry, lyrical poetry - such as that of yeats and shelley, than by readers of the hard-boiled school of travel writing epitomized in v ”