A review by rhrousu
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye

3.0

A patron in her eighties told me this was her favorite book and she had read it several times, so I promised I would read it. She didn’t mention it was 957 pages long! I read the dang thing in under three weeks and it was an engrossing historical fiction epic set in India and Afghanistan in the 1800s. Written in the 70s, so there are some definite whiffs of orientalism, but overall it has it’s heart in the right place. Recommended only for people who have a lot of spare time on their hands and enjoy old fashioned historical adventure fiction.