Saraswati — Gurnaik Johal

AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE INDEPENDENT TELEGRAPH NERVE AND GUARDIAN An ambitious stylishly delivered novel Reminiscent of Salman Rushdie OBSERVER Johal has written a major novel and at his very first attempt TELEGRAPH 5 STAR REVIEWWhen the waters of the Saraswati a river of legend start to rise in a corner of northern India seven scattered descendants of a forbidden marriage are unexpectedly swept up in its current Satnam adrift from his life in London is drawn into a contentious scheme to restore the river Nathu an archaeologist ventures from Nairobi to a dig site that might reveal artefacts of a lost civilisation And elsewhere in former lands of empire in Singapore Canada Mauritius and Pakistan the ripples are felt across generations Gurnaik Johal s panoramic debut deftly animates the passions that bind us to our histories and each other A rich tapestry occasionally bewildering often beguiling THE NEW YORK TIMES Tanıtım Bülteninden