num_pages: 583
description: As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business--a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj--the waif, the mind reader, the prophet--when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden. In the next few weeks, 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 cultures--one 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.
language: English
title: River of Gods
titlecomplete: River of Gods
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Cyberpunk, India, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Near Future
ratings_count: 5817
places: Varanasi (Benares)
series: India 2047
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Roman étranger, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Prix Bob Morane
category: roman traduit, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Cena Akademie SFFH
category: Kniha roku (Book of the Year)
publisher: Simon & Schuster UK