Gestures: A Novel
by H. S. Bhabra
Category: Biography & Autobiography

Gestures is a novel, written as the autobiography of one Jeremy Burnham, career diplomat and gentleman, who in his 83rd year sets down his life story. It begins in the Venice of the twenties, just as the Fascists are taking over the government and ends in war-torn Amsterdam, desperate and destitute after the Allied victory.