A beginner’s guide to dying in India

Levi’s house burns down, his fiancé dumps him for the nun­nery and he gets fired from his job – all in quick succession.

When his long lost brother requests that he join him in India post-haste, he does so with­out hes­i­ta­tion – he doesn’t have a lot going for him back home and the adven­ture sounds rather enticing.

It soon becomes clear that the trip is not to be a relax­ing hol­i­day. As it turns out, his brother is gravely ill – dying, in fact. He dies shortly after Levi’s arrival and bequeaths his some­what sur­pris­ingly sub­stan­tial estate to his younger brother – Levi. Claim­ing the money is not that sim­ple, how­ever, and Levi must unravel his brother’s diary and set off on a jour­ney through India to ulti­mately lay his hands on the prize.

The jour­ney and con­vo­luted, cryp­tic trail lead­ing to the ample con­tents of his will, is pre­sum­ably to teach Levi invalu­able life lessons his older brother learnt dur­ing his own life jour­ney. Some intrigu­ing char­ac­ters along the way – and the pur­suit of a rather sin­is­ter char­ac­ter intent on shar­ing the spoils, adds enough sus­pense to keep the reader hooked.

The book also gave a colour­ful and insight­ful glimpse of the vibrant pulse of India – a fas­ci­nat­ing aside. This newly pub­lished Aus­tralian author cer­tainly knows how to spin a yarn.

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A beginner’s guide to dying in India
By J.M. Donel­lan
Pub­lished by Inter­ac­tive Press
ISBN 1921479302
EAN: 9781921479304