Varanasi allegorises Life and Death, Light and Darkness, Good and Evil. Thursday, Jun 19, 2025. New Delhi o C. ... Life and Death in Varanasi isn’t a book. But it could be a metaphor.

Geoff Dyer's latest novel, teasingly titled "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi," is quite the mind game. To play, you obviously have to read the book. Here's the initial setup: two distinct parts ...

Dyer’s latest book, the impishly titled “Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi” (Pantheon; $24), describes itself as a novel but is two long stories, one set in Venice and one in the holy Indian ...

Death in Varanasi. A Novel. Geoff Dyer. ... we are going to take this strange new book, “Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi,” as the pivot, the point at which the author gets back to work.

This book offers an ethnographic and anthropological look at death and the dead in Varanasi An excerpt from ‘Dead in Banaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling,’ by Ravi Nandan Singh. Ravi ...

April 2009 Book of the Month: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, by Geoff Dyer The last time I was in Venice, I fell in with a group of Americans who were talking passionately about the Venice ...

Reading: Dyer reads from "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi" at 7:30 p.m. April 22 at Powell's City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside St. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a ...

Step into the heart of Varanasi, where every street tells a story of life and death. This city, steeped in spirituality, offers a unique glimpse into its vibrant yet somber reality. 🌼 Don't ...

Varanasi, India. A 10-hour journey on Indian roads can be difficult and this one, fueled by faith, was more so.. Dinesh Chandra Mishra packed moth-eaten woolen blankets for the trip along with ...

Hindu pilgrims have long come to Varanasi to die, believing that it will bring salvation. But by wandering aimlessly, Pico Iyer realises this city of death is actually a city of joy.