A River Sutra
Material type: TextPublication details: London Vintage Books 1999Description: 276 pbISBN:- 0749397926
- 0749397926
- 9780749397920
- 823 MEH
This book is a delight. Written with hypnotic lyricism, this is seductive prose of a high order. Gita Mehta has written a novel which defies easy categorisation: its central character is India's holiest river, the Narmada, mere sight of which is salvation. The narrator, a retired civil servant, has escaped the world to spend his twillight years running a guest house on the river's bank. But he has chosen the wrong place: too many lives converge here. Minstrels, musicians, ascetics, monks - everyone has their own story to tell.
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