River of Gods Author:Ian McDonald As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their businessa gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Ajthe waif, the mind reader, the prophetwhen she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden. In the next few wee... more »ks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples and culturesone and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.« less