num_pages: 96
description: Flora Crewe, a young poet travelling in India in 1930, has her portrait painted by a local artist. More than fifty years later, the artist's son visits Flor'as sister in London while her would-be biographer is following a cold trail in India. The alternation of place and period in Tom Stoppard's new play (based on his radio play In The Native State ) makes for a rich and moving exploration of intimate lives set against one of the great shafts of history, the emergence of the Indian subcontinent from the grip of Europe.
language: English
title: Indian Ink
titlecomplete: Indian Ink
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, Plays, India, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 642
places: India, England
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux