Saraswati

A holy river returns, seven lives change course ''A writer we will be talking about for years to come'' Neel Mukherjee Centuries ago, the holy river Saraswati flowed through what is now Punjab. Many dismiss this as myth, but when Satnam arrives in his ancestral village for his grandmother''s funeral, he finds water in the dried-up well behind her house. The discovery sets in motion a contentious scheme to unearth the lost river as an act of Hindu nationalist pride. The river changes the course of Satnam''s life, and those of six others. As legends and histories resurface, the distant relatives - from a Canadian eco-saboteur to a Mauritian pest exterminator to a Bollywood stunt double - are brought together in a rapidly changing India. Ambitious, moving and brimming with folklore, Saraswati is a tour de force from one of Britain''s most feted young writers. ''A new talent of the kind that comes along rarely'' Observer

About the author

Gurnaik Johal is a writer from West London. His 2022 collection We Move won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Tata Literature Live! Prize. Its opening story won the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize. Saraswati is his debut novel.

Product details

• Authors: Gurnaik Johal
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.06.2025
• EAN: 9781805225812
• ISBN: 978-1-80522-581-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 234 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction & related items, FICTION / Literary, Fiction: general and literary, Fiction and Related items, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary