Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
post
page
product
Want to stay in the loop with latest bookish news and views? Subscribe to HarperBroadcast!

I Am a Stranger Here Myself : An Unreliable Memoir

By Bhaichand Patel

 699.00 inclusive of all taxes

  • Amazon

  • Warning: Undefined variable $productid in /var/www/html/harper_staging/wp-content/themes/harpercollins/woocommerce/content-single-product.php on line 399

    Warning: Undefined variable $productid in /var/www/html/harper_staging/wp-content/themes/harpercollins/woocommerce/content-single-product.php on line 407
  • Or from your local bookseller.
We will notify you when the book is released!
Please allow notification and avoid private mode for this feature to work.

About the book

From modest beginnings in Fiji, a dot in the Pacific Ocean, to the dining tables of queens and prime ministers, Bhaichand Patel’s journey shows him to be the quintessential self-made man. Journalist, author, lawyer, diplomat, film critic, with a gift for mixing a potent cocktail–he has dived into every avocation with aplomb, and emerged with some great insights and plenty of stories. In I Am a Stranger Here Myself, he puts these together in a narrative that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride all over the world–from Fiji, Bombay, London to New York, Cairo, Manila–coming to rest in the leafy environs of New Delhi’s Sujan Singh Park.Traipsing through the book’s pages are distinguished lawyers, judges, diplomats, journalists, politicians, authors, actors and directors–some down on their luck, others on the rise.An early practitioner of the work hard, party harder philosophy, Patel shows that life can be as difficult as we want to make it, or as much fun. As Henry Miller put it, ‘Do anything, but let it produce joy’.

Pages: 272

Available in: Hardback

Language: English

Bhaichand Patel

Bhaichand Patel is the author of four previous books, Chasing the Good Life; Happy Hours: The Penguin Book of Cocktails; Bollywood’s Top Twenty: The Superstars of Indian Cinema and a bestselling novel, Mothers, Lovers & Other Strangers, which has also been published in Hindi under the title Haath Ki Lakeeren. He has lived in Fiji, Delhi, Bombay, London, New York, Cairo and Manila. These have been his longer stints.

Read More

Books by Bhaichand Patel

Recommended for You