Book description
Calcutta, a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is
clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core
is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal,
her song the sound of death and destruction. Robert Luczak has been
hired by a New York magazine to find a noted Indian poet who has
reappeared, under strange circumstances, years after he was thought
dead. But nothing is simple in Calcutta, and before long Luczak's
routine assignment turns into a nightmare . . . it is rumoured that the
poet has been brought back to life, in a bloody and grisly ceremony of
human sacrifice. Dan Simmons won the World Fantasy Award for his first
novel, SONG OF KALI,. inspired by his travels in India. In the 1990s he
rewrote the SF rulebook with his Hyperion Cantos quartet. As well as
horror and aSF, Simmons writes fantasy and thriller. Alongside his
writing career he maintains a career as a college lecturer in English
Literature in the USA.
