Dreams of Rivers and Seas

Tim Parks

RRP: £7.99

Publisher: VINTAGE

Publication Date : 02/07/2009

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Tim Parks's masterly novel explores the great mystery and allure of India to Western eyes, its strangeness, the intensity of its street life and its indifference to all distinctions between the religious and secular. John travels to Delhi after the death of his father there. He was an anthropologist, and the nature of his research and the circumstances of his death are far from clear. 'Enormously powerful...fiercely intelligent...a gripping and ambiguous novel' "Times"

Publisher's description:

'For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water'. Just days after Albert James writes these lines to his son John, in London, he is dead. Abandoning a pretty girlfriend and the lab where he is completing his PhD, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning.

ISBN: 9780099513360