A River Dreams Red

About the Book

Bane, to earn money to support his poor parents of Iguana Island, goes to the hinterland of Kassaku to work as a teacher. Staying at Mr. Sampat’s home, he has to battle with the double agony of Mr. Sampat’s distrust of him and of the two Sampat girls’, Moreen’s and Riya’s, amatory advances. Jealous of Bane, Moreen’s boyfriend, William, attempts to stab Bane, but his knife plunges into Moreen’s heart and kills her instead. In this way, Bane fi nds himself trapped between murder and love. Will he survive the agony, dangers, schemes and loneliness? This epic tells how he circumvents dangers in a wild jungle and defeats the insidious minds of the river inhabitants to achieve his goals. The novel also has adventitious stories of Father Hodge’s prison life in Stalug Luft in Germany and of the Spaniards’ coming to the Caribbean, exploring history, traditions and the rain forest of South America to tell a story that has journeys and implications both in the inner and outer worlds.

About the Author

Churaumanie Bissundyal hails from a little island, Leguan, in the Essequibo River, Guyana. He has completed five novels, five books of poems and fifteen plays. He holds a master’s degree in fine arts (MFA), and teaches advanced Sanskrit in New York.