River of Gods by Ian McDonald
August 15th, 2047. India's Hundredth Birthday . . .
In the mid twenty-first century, Mother India is all the things she is now - ancient and vibrant, violent, diverse, poor yet staggeringly rich. A nation of contrasts and contradictions, choked with peoples and cultures. Nearly two billion humans crowd the subcontinent and her seething cities - the cyberabads - where timeless culture and high technologies meet to spawn new societies - and possible new sentient species.
River of Gods is the great Indian novel of the future, where a diverse array of characters - from gangsters and superstitious street-boys to genetically enhanced Brahmins and computer-generated soap stars - is swept together on an epic journey that will decide the fate of their civilization.
Format: Paperback | 592 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 13 x 3.5 | 506g -
Publication Date: 01 Jun 2005
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Pocket Books
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0743404009
ISBN13: 9780743404006
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Some obvious damage to the cover including scuff marks and creasing along the edges, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with creasing throughout, but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages. A slightly scruffy but till clean, solid and readable copy.