''The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes'' (published in the United States as ''Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years'') is a
Sherlock Holmes pastiche
Sherlock Holmes has long been a popular character for pastiche, Holmes-related work by authors and creators other than Arthur Conan Doyle.
Their works can be grouped into four broad categories:
*New Sherlock Holmes stories
*Stories in which Holm ...
novel by
Jamyang Norbu
Jamyang Norbu ( Tibetan: འཇམ་དབྱངས་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: 'jam-dbyangs nor-bu) is a Tibetan political activist and writer, currently living in the United States, having previously lived for over 40 years as a Tibetan exi ...
, originally published in India in 1999.
The novel is an account of Holmes's adventures in India and
Tibet
Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Taman ...
where, posing as Norwegian explorer Sigerson, he meets the
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama (, ; ) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current D ...
and Huree Chunder Mookerjee, a character from
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
...
's novel ''
Kim
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Names
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* Kim (surname)
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*** Kim family (disambiguation), several dynasties
**** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948
** Kim, Vietnamese f ...
''.
The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes By Jamyang Norbu
review at bakerstreetdozen.com
References
1999 novels
Sherlock Holmes novels
Sherlock Holmes pastiches
Novels set in India
Novels set in Tibet
HarperCollins books
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