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A New York Times Notable Book
A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate.com, and Time
In Venice, at the Biennale,Ā a jaded, bellini-swigging journalist named Jeff AtmanĀ meets a beautiful woman and they embark on a passionate affair.
In Varanasi, an unnamedā¦
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1 author picked Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Geoff Dyer has a funny, trenchant persona in his writing on travel and art, and this novel delivers those pithy insights through two fictional alter egos. This book does so many things I love, giving me fresh ways to see places, books, and ideas I know but never thought of this way, including new ways of thinking about the self.
The bookās first part tells of a middle-aged Brit called Jeff at the Venice Biennale; in the other, an unnamed middle-aged Brit relates an ill-fated voyage to one of Indiaās holiestāand most pollutedāsites. The title is an obvious play onā¦
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