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Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year

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Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He´s expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He´s not expecting to meet the spellbinding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. So begins a story of erotic love and spiritual learning that will reach its conclusion amidst the ghats of Varanasi. Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He´s expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He´s not expecting to meet the spellbinding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. So begins a story of erotic love and spiritual learning that will reach its conclusion amidst the ghats of Varanasi.

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Dazzling and peculiar . . . A prodigious display of virtuosity. Jan Morris Guardian Dazzling and peculiar . . . A prodigious display of virtuosity. Jan Morris Guardian

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Dyer, Geoff
Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography´s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters´ E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ´s Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.

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