- Published: 1 September 2009
- ISBN: 9780099513360
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 448
- RRP: $35.00
Dreams of Rivers and Seas
- Published: 1 September 2009
- ISBN: 9780099513360
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 448
- RRP: $35.00
A rapidly unfolding mystery that hints at suicide, murder and madness, and builds to a wrenching climax... haunting and accomplished... The finale is unexpected and terrifying
Guardian
This is a brilliant evocation of the teeming back streets and bazaars of Delhi and the gulf between Indian life and western logic
Eve
A brave book...he shows with this novel, he intimately understands the Western condition, its complexity and fragility
Nirpal Dhaliwal, Evening Standard
A love story (or rather several love stories), an oblique and engrossing mystery, but above all a story about language and its limitations
Sunday Telegraph
Ambitious and compelling
Sunday Times
This probably won't get within a bull's roar of the Booker shortlist. It should.The complexities of Dreams of Rivers and Seas are not the product of contrivance, but simply those of experience
Sunday Herald
An engaging story
Times Literary Supplement
The originality, power and sheer prolificacy of Parks's production makes the work of his British contemporaries appear trite... His prose can be sparse and lucid, or almost manically convoluted, although beyond the fierce and questioning intelligence are both humour and artfully constructed and invariably gripping plots... In other words it's a big, easily readable book - though with a solidly intellectual core - more than ripe for big prizes
Independent on Sunday
In the tradition of British writing about India, this novel is a rich, unexpected variation, and a considerable addition
Amit Chaudhuri, Financial Times
With his constant switching of viewpoint, tense and emphasis, Parks, an extremely skilful storyteller, makes sure the novel's intensity never falters
Irish Times
Enormously powerful... fiercely intelligent... a gripping and ambiguous novel
The Times
In his latest novel, Parks demonstrates a seemingly effortless mastery of biochemistry...a fast paced thriller with sex and relationships at its heart
Jane Housham, The Guardian Saturday Review
Entirely convincing. He is a highly skilful writer and this is an absorbing story
Nick Rennison, Sunday Times
Parks competently handles the themes of secrecy and communication
Heather McRobie, Telegraph