Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman'a jaded, dissolutely resolute journalist'whose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled party-going is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story. But when he meets Laura, he is rejuvenated and falls into a heady love affair with her. Every day thousands of pilgrims head to the ghats of the Ganges at Varanasi. Among their number is a narrator who may or may not be the Atman previously seen in Venice. Intending to visit only for a few days, he ends up staying interminably.

Could the two stories, in these two ancient and watery cities, actually be one and the same? Profoundly playful, deeply evocative, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is an arresting and utterly original story of erotic love and spiritual yearning.

About the Author
Geoff Dyer is the author of three previous novels, and five non-fiction books, including the bestselling Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography (for The Ongoing Moment), and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E M Forster Award, Dyer lives in London.

GeneralFeatures
ISBN13:	818400088X
ISBN10:	9788184000887, 978-818400
Author1:	Geoff Dyer
Publisher:	Random House India
Binding:	Hardcover
Publishing Date:	2009
Edition:	1stEdition
Number of Pages:	304
Language:	English

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