As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business - a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj - the waif, the mind-reader, the prophet - when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden. In the next few weeks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. "River of Gods" teems with the life of a country choked with people and cultures - one and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.
- ISBN10 1591024366
- ISBN13 9781591024361
- Publish Date 1 March 2006 (first published 7 June 2004)
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Out of Print 9 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prometheus Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 599
- Language English