Dreams of Rivers and Seas

Tim Parks

RRP: £16.99

Publisher: HARVILL SECKER

Publication Date : 07/08/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A new novel set in India, from the author of "Destiny", "Judge Savage" and "Europa", which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. John James abandons a pretty girlfriend and the lab where he is completing his PhD in London, and flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning following the death of his father. The circumstances of Albert James's death, and the nature of his research, were unclear.

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: 9781846551130