Description

This novel by Dan Simmons is set in Calcutta. The city is old and full of contrasts. Scholars, poets, artists and musicians have lived there for ages. It holds both great beauty and deep ugliness. Rich spiritual life sits beside crowded, poor night shelters. Sweet incense mixes with the stench of the dead. The city is also home to dark tales and strange beliefs.

Robert Luzak is an American journalist. His editors send him to Calcutta on a job. He must bring back a manuscript to America. It belongs to a poet named Das. Das was a student of the famous Rabindranath Tagore. The trip seems routine at first. Soon it turns into a chain of horrifying events.

This is a work of fiction. This Russian edition comes from the publisher AST. It is part of the series Эксклюзивная классика. It is a paperback of 416 pages.