About the Book: Gone Away
One of the most unconventional travelogues ever written, Gone Away covers three
months of Dom Moraes life spent in the subcontinent at the time of the Chinese
incursions on the Tibetan border in 1959. In that short time, a remarkable
number of memorable things happened to him, some of them the sort of fantastic
situations that could only enmesh a poet, perhaps only a young poet—a visit to a
speak-easy in Bombay; an interview with Nehru and an hour spent closeted with
the Dalai Lama in Delhi; and a meeting with the great Nepalese poet, Devkota,
whom he found already laid out