The Museum of the World

By Christopher Kloeble| Rekha Kamath Rajan

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About the book

Bartholomew is an orphan from Bombay. He’s twelve years old and speaks almost as many languages. That is why, in the year 1854, he is hired as a translator by the brothers Schlagintweit from Germany who, with the support of Alexander von Humboldt and the East India Company, embark upon the greatest expedition of their time, which takes them across India and the Himalayas.

But Bartholomew is also pursuing his own agenda: he wants to establish the first museum of his remarkable, complex native land. And for this, he is willing to risk everything – even his life.

Based on the true story of a huge scientific undertaking by three Bavarian brothers, and brilliantly translated by Rekha Kamath Rajan, Christopher Kloeble’s The Museum of the World is a fantastic adventure that will change the way we see the history of colonialism.

Pages: 464

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Christopher Kloeble

Christopher Kloeble is an award-winning scriptwriter and the author of three novels, a short story collection and a memoir. He has taught at Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, Cambridge University and Hong Kong University, among others. His books have been translated into nine languages. He lives in Berlin and New Delhi.

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Rekha Kamath Rajan

Rekha Kamath Rajan spent the better part ofher life reading, studying and teaching German literature at ElphinstoneCollege in Mumbai and at the Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity in Delhi. Her research focuses on representations of India in theGerman literary and missionary discourse.

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The Museum of the World is Kim for the twenty-first century. In this rollicking adventure story, Kloeble easily places his own sense of wonder at the many charms and infinite possibilities of the Indian subcontinent in the eyes of his orphan hero, Bartholomew, who travels with German scientists across the country in search of answers to his own questions. - ARSHIA SATTAR

Tender and exuberant, The Museum of the World gives us our own country in an age – and from a viewpoint – that has rarely been seen in fiction. Splendidly panoramic and deeply immersive. - CHANDRAHAS CHOUDHURY

At once hilarious and heartbreaking. A great feat of ventriloquism. - H.M. NAQVI

The Museum of the World is a gripping, beautiful and complex novel. Written from the point of view of an orphan teenager, the story prises open the craziness and folly of the European colonial project in India. The boy’s journey from fetid mid nineteenth-century Bombay to the high Himalayas is also the journey from precocious childhood to early adulthood. - RUCHIR JOSHI

Christopher Kloeble’s The Museum of the World is a feast, a swashbuckling picaresque filled with thrilling encounters at every bend, a work of mind expansion. An absolutely delightful, devour-worthy novel. - SARNATH BANERJEE