Gita Mehta : A river Sutra

‘This book is a delight. Written with hypnotic lyricism, this is seductive prose of a high order. Gita Mehta has written a novel which defies easy categorisation: its central character is India’s holiest river, the Narmada, mere sight of which is salvation. The narrator, a retired civil servant, has escaped the world to spend his twilight years running a guest house on the river’s bank. But he has chosen the wrong place: too many lives converge here. Minstrels, musicians, ascetics, monks – everyone has their own story to tell …’

Time Out

‘The simplicity of the plots makes it difficult to express the joy that one has in reading them. All India seems to be there … I have a feeling, indeed a hope, that A River Sutra will become a classic, revered and enjoyed by young and old’

Daily Telegraph

‘A mesmerizing novel by a writer of prodigious gifts’

Miami Herald

‘Superb, profound, apparently effortless storytelling’

Independent on Sunday