The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love : 'You Won't Find Any Other Love Story That Is So Beautiful' Grazia. This item is unavailable.The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love : 'You Won't Find Any Other Love Story That Is So Beautiful' Grazia

Pradyumna Kumar, known as PK, was born into a poor, untouchable family in a small village in eastern India. All his life he has kept a palm leaf bearing an astrologer’s prophecy: “You will marry a girl who is not from the village, not from the district, not even from our country; she will be musical, own a jungle and be born under the sign of the ox.” But not until PK attends art school in New Delhi do his stars begin to align. One evening, while drawing portraits in a park, he meets a young Swedish woman, Lotta von Schendin — and this brief meeting will change the courses of their lives forever.

This is the remarkable true story of how a young Indian man armed with nothing more than a handful of paintbrushes and a secondhand Raleigh bicycle made his way across Asia and Europe in search of the woman he loves.

Per J Andersson is a writer and journalist. He is the co-founder of Sweden's most well-known traveller's magazine Vagabond, and has been visiting India for the last 30 years. He lives in Stockholm. Anna Holmwood translates literature from Swedish and Chinese into English. She lives in Malmoe, Sweden.