About the Author

Tim Lewis is an extremely experienced and accomplished author of 12 books, including history, poetry, philosophy and fiction. He has won several prizes and been awarded a number of fellowships and grants for his work, which has reached an international audience. He was born in southern Africa and raised in England, but is now a resident of Charlottesville, Virginia. He has read his work to audiences across America and Europe and his works have won international acclaim. This is his fifth novel. As part of his research, he took four lengthy trips to India, studied with Hindu and Buddhist masters, traveled extensively around the country lived in a number of Indian villages, lived with tribals, sarpanchs, patels and sadhus. He is an expert on Indian culture and history.