Dreams of rivers and seas

By Tim Parks

Subjects: Death, Fiction, family life, Fiction, Fathers, India, fiction

Description: 'For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water'. Just days after Albert James writes these lines to his son, John, in London, he is dead. Abandoning a pretty girlfriend and the lab where he is completing his PhD, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning.