The Clockmaker's Box

In a career that has embraced fiction and non-fiction, and bridged West with East, Tahir Shah has frequently commented on his own work - or on that of other authors - in a series of supplementary essays.

For the first time, the dozens of prefaces, introductions, forewords and afterwords produced by Shah have been collected and published in a volume of their own.

Fascinating for admirers of his literary corpus, the texts illuminate how and why Shah structured each book as he did. Lifting the...