River of Gods - Couverture souple

McDonald, Ian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1591025958 ISBN 13 : 9781591025955

Editeur : Pyr Books, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Mcdonald Ian

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

August 15, 2047. One and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. At 100, Mother India is all the things she has always been - beautiful and terrible, fantastically poor and staggeringly rich, unimaginably ancient and a leader of the technological revolution. Always changing, always the same.
On the eve of her hundredth birthday, ten people are doing ten very different things. A gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, a hippie - and Aj. Aj, the waif, the mind-reader, the prophet - the one who may hold the key to it all.
In the next few weeks, they will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation.
Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium. River of Gods teems with the life of a nation choked with peoples and cultures - a war fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded - as the great river Ganges flows on.
'In terms of ideas, intellectual scope, detail, inventiveness, risk taking and sheer scale, McDonald's novel is one of the most ambitious I have read in recent years. It is also a staggering achievement . . . River of Gods is a brave, brilliant and wonderful novel' Christopher Priest, Guardian
'A triumphant panorama of mid-21st century India. Hugely adventurous and entertaining, sumptuously inventive and full of heart' Locus
'One hundred years after Midnight's Children and the nation were born while the nation slept ... McDonald does it in style. It gathers pace quite superbly' Starburst
'A big, ambitious novel envisioning India's high-tech future which combines intelligent cynicism about the political realm with an idealism about ordinary people which avoids heroics' TIME OUT

Quatrième de couverture :

August 15, 2047 - Happy Hundredth Birthday, India
As Mother India approaches her centenary, ten 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 be swept together to decide the fate of the nation.
River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples 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.
'In terms of ideas, intellectual scope, detail, inventiveness, risk taking and sheer scale, McDonald's novel is one of the most ambitious I have read in recent years. It is also a staggering achievement . . . River of Gods is a brave, brilliant and wonderful novel' Christopher Priest, Guardian
'A triumphant panorama of mid-21st century India. Hugely adventurous and entertaining, sumptuously inventive and full of heart' Locus
'One hundred years after Midnight's Children and the nation were born while the nation slept … McDonald does it in style. It gathers pace quite superbly' Starburst
'A big, ambitious novel envisioning India's high-tech future which combines intelligent cynicism about the political realm with an idealism about ordinary people which avoids heroics' TIME OUT

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pyr Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1591025958
• ISBN 13: 9781591025955
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 599