About the author
Award-winning foreign correspondent Pallavi Aiyar has reported from China and Europe for over a decade. Her China travelogue, Smoke and Mirrors, won the Vodafone-Crossword Popular Book Award for 2008. Her novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in China, was published in America, Italy, Belgium and India. She is also the lead author of the Lonely Planet guide, China: For the Indian Traveller. Pallavi Aiyar is now based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
