Two men of very different personalities make a quarrelsome journey across the vast subcontinent of India in quest of very separate destinies. Along the way, young Rakesh and Vasant, the former Royal Engineers, experience a host of bizarre and memorable encounters; with the giant wood-constructed god Jagannath carving a swath of destruction, with the Pragmatic Monks who live in a carved-out mountain to perform their miracles of meditation, with demon cranes who reduce life to counting, with six-armed goondas, the destroyer Shiva and the legendary Baboon Warrior.From this cinematic dreamscape filled with animated machines, airships of silk and ancient legends brought to life, Jan Lars Jensen conjures up an amazing and innovative fantasy.
- ISBN10 0330392379
- ISBN13 9780330392372
- Publish Date 9 March 2001 (first published 22 July 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 June 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Tor
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 416
- Language English