Holy Cow : An Indian Adventure (Paperback)

from debnance

What is it about India? Sensually beautiful, yet also filthy and vile. Brilliant and lost. Deeply serious and ridiculously silly. I'm fascinated by it.I liked Holy Cow a lot. Macdonald is smart and clever and the stories she tells almost read like fiction. Recommended.

from astrologerjenny

I enjoyed this vivid account by an Australian woman who lived in India for a few years. She's a journalist with a snappy writing style and an eye for detail. She's cheeky, irreverent, honest about both India's dreadful bits and its wonderful bits. She's intellectually curious, but she's also on a...

from pdever

Holy Cow, is a great book, fun to read and cheeky, yet also open to and generous toward the many wonders and frustrations the author encountered while travelling in India. I read this book while working in India and found the descriptions to be apt, although they are presented in a condensed mann...

from irisdovie

I loved this book. MacDonald makes what might have been a disastrous experience into a positive experience. Her writing is both humorous and intelligent, and I highly recommend it. MacDonald spends a few years in India, and explores the many religions and cultures of the area, leaving with a new ...

from alwright1

I've always been fascinated with India, so I was excited about this book, but it ended up making me think twice about whether or not I wanted to visit. I've always thought of it as a fascinating place with beautiful things and people, and this definitely disabused me of any wrong notions. The aut...