Author(s): Sol Wisher

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Australian Fiction

Kathmandu in the monsoon season; a city gripped by political unrest; a place for lovers to part; a getaway toEastern mysticism. Adrift, buffeted by turmoil in the streets and the loss of his Israeli lover, Sol Wisher fallsin with the wandering Parisian, Jean-Luc, at a Buddhist retreat and joins him on a strange, hallucinogenic journey to the "otherside". Fleeing from the holy city of Varanasi, Sol heads north to Delhi in search of his first love, Tamar, but there, in a plague-threatened corner of the vast metropolis, the final, nightmare phase of Sols yearning for illumination begins. A poignant tale of youthful misadventure.

2007. First edition. A fine, unmarked copy.