Operation Blue Star was a military assault by the Indian army on the Golden Temple—an unspeakable, unjustified defilement of the holiest shrine in Sikhdom, Sikhs said. It was disastrous: heavy artillery in a small overcrowded town.
The author revisits the past as he journeys through Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Siberia on an adventure that reveals the dramatic changes that have occurred since the writing of his original travelogue.
Brilliant, caustic, and totally addictive, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is Theroux at his very best. From the Hardcover edition.
On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux. ACCLAIM FOR. ghost. T1'O.I1'1. T0. Tilt-3. I-IOSTt:r't1. star. “Theroux is still a master of the telling aphorism and capable of portraying a landscape in a few words with ...
The book is a travelogue by American novelist Paul Theroux.