Description
Santosh—a ten-year-old from a Mumbai slum with a passion for cricket, Bollywood, and Ganpati Baapa; Salim—a socialist trader from Birmingham and witness to the aftermath of the unjust ‘war on terror’; Ruth—a lesbian ship-welder from New Jersey whose fierce right-wing patriotism cost her the love of her life; Akechi—a rakish, self-obsessed manga star with a fondness for high living and beautiful gaijin women; and Yoshi—Akechi’s twin and fellow mangaka, a hermaphrodite consumed by a guilty secret about their Japanese father and Chinese mother. Can this wildly unlikely quintet succeed in their seemingly impossible mission of travelling to the end of time and space to bring peace to the world? Can they overcome their cultural, racial, religious and other differences and find a way to end the apocalyptic War of Wars that threatens not only humanity, but all creation, with ultimate destruction? Does humanity even deserve to be saved?
About the Author
Ashok K. Banker is the internationally acclaimed author of over 80 books that have sold over 3 million copies in 32 languages and 71 countries. Their hugely successful Ramayana Series is credited with having launched the genre of English-language mythological retellings and influenced an entire generation of authors. They are credited with being the author of India’s first crime novels in English, first fantasy series in English, first ebooks, and several other firsts. As a journalist, they broke front-page news stories for the Times of India, The Week and Outlook. As a screenwriter, they created and wrote India’s First TV Series in English, and co-created and co-wrote Malaysia’s First TV Series in English, as well as several other hit comedy, police procedural, and historical shows. Born in Mumbai, Ashok is of Irish-Portuguese-Sri Lankan-Indian parentage, and now lives in Mumbai and Los Angeles.
