Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
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    Apr-2009 (Hardcover)
    Apr-2010 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    304
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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. When he meets Laura, he is rejuvenated, ecstatic. Their romance blossoms quickly but is it destined to disappear just as rapidly?

Every day thousands of pilgrims head to the banks of the Ganges at Varanasi, the holiest Hindu city in India. 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 for months, and finds--or should that be loses?--a hitherto unexamined idea of himself, the self. In a romance he can only observe, he sees a reflection of the kind of pleasures that, willingly or not, he has renounced. In the process, two ancient and watery cities become versions of each other. Could two stories, in two different cities, actually be one and the same story?
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    • Apr-2010
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0307390306
    • ISBN13: 9780307390301
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    • May-2009
    • Canongate Books
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1847672701
    • ISBN13: 9781847672704
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    • Mar-2015
    • Canongate Books
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1782115145
    • ISBN13: 9781782115144
    • First Edition
    • Apr-2009
    • Pantheon (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0307377377
    • ISBN13: 9780307377371
    •  
    • Oct-2011
    • Canongate Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 184767271X
    • ISBN13: 9781847672711
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    • Apr-2009
    • Canongate Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1847675751
    • ISBN13: 9781847675750
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    • Apr-2009
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 030737808X
    • ISBN13: 9780307378088
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    • May-2010
    • The Text Publishing Company
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1921799544
    • ISBN13: 9781921799549
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    • Jul-2010
    • Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    • Audible
    •  
    • Aug-2010
    • Playaway
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1441753397
    • ISBN13: 9781441753397
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    • Aug-2010
    • Playaway
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1441753389
    • ISBN13: 9781441753380
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    • Aug-2010
    • Playaway
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1441753362
    • ISBN13: 9781441753366
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    • Aug-2010
    • Playaway
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1441753354
    • ISBN13: 9781441753359



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