The City of Good Death

by Priyanka Champaneri

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Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent, prize-winning debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.

As the dutiful manager of a death hostel in Banaras on the banks of the Ganges, Pramesh Prasad administers to dying Hindu pilgrims who hope to be released from earthly reincarnation. He lives and works contentedly with his wife,...

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  • ISBN10 1632062526
  • ISBN13 9781632062529
  • Publish Date 8 April 2021 (first published 23 February 2021)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Regan Arts
  • Imprint Restless Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 448
  • Language English