Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman—a jaded, dissolutely resolute journalist—whose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled party-going is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story. But when he meets Laura, he is rejuvenated and falls into a heady love affair with her. Every day thousands of pilgrims head to the ghats of the Ganges at Varanasi. ...
