"To her left lay great pale fields of stubble, lit by a gleam of watery straw-coloured sun, and above the curved brown furrows swooped and swirled great flocks of dark birds, like the congregated spirit of many souls in torment."
"In another, a woman with straw-coloured hair sits on a roadside bench with a fast-food takeaway on her lap."
"The straw-coloured hat, the bright green paddy fields and the black buffalo grazing all around – a world pure and beautiful, hidden and charming."