The Brain Fever Bird

The Brainfever Bird is an exquisite love story, a tale of international intrigue and biological weapons, a literary thriller bursting with life, illusion and wonder. Lev is a man who has come down in the world. Once a biological weapons scientist, he is now a chauffeur in ‘that new Russia where physicists wash windows and engineers drive trams’. So he decides to take his lethal knowledge abroad; to offer his services to a foreign government. He goes to India – and then he is robbed. It is in a helpless state, alone and adrift in Delhi, that Lev meets Maya. Beautiful and different, Maya has been waiting for a man like Lev to walk into her life. For a few days an awkward romance blossoms between them. But then something terrible happens – something for which the Russian scientist is blamed. PRAISE FOR AUTHOR’S EARLIER NOVEL – The Everest Hotel Sealy’s melodic prose is alive to every nuance of the lush landscape around him, one he populates with an intriguing tale about people’s inability to connect. – Sunday Times A fascinating study of human foibles for every reader, bvut a sensory treat for lovers of this fascinating country. – Daily Telegraph Rich and evocative . . Sealy relives the sadness of this story with comic moments…Poetic descriptions bring to life the landscape of India: you can see the lush vegetation, smell the rice-fields and fruit, hear the birdsong. – Independent Delightfully odd and evocative. – The Times