Dreams of Rivers and Seas

A brave book...he shows with this novel, he intimately understands the Western condition, its complexity and fragility

Nirpal Dhaliwal, Evening Standard

A love story (or rather several love stories), an oblique and engrossing mystery, but above all a story about language and its limitations

Sunday Telegraph

A rapidly unfolding mystery that hints at suicide, murder and madness, and builds to a wrenching climax... haunting and accomplished... The finale is unexpected and terrifying

Guardian

Ambitious and compelling

Sunday Times

An engaging story

Times Literary Supplement

Enormously powerful... fiercely intelligent... a gripping and ambiguous novel

The Times

Entirely convincing. He is a highly skilful writer and this is an absorbing story

Nick Rennison, Sunday Times

In his latest novel, Parks demonstrates a seemingly effortless mastery of biochemistry...a fast paced thriller with sex and relationships at its heart

Jane Housham, The Guardian Saturday Review

In the tradition of British writing about India, this novel is a rich, unexpected variation, and a considerable addition

Amit Chaudhuri, Financial Times

Parks competently handles the themes of secrecy and communication

Heather McRobie, Telegraph

The originality, power and sheer prolificacy of Parks's production makes the work of his British contemporaries appear trite... His prose can be sparse and lucid, or almost manically convoluted, although beyond the fierce and questioning intelligence are both humour and artfully constructed and invariably gripping plots... In other words it's a big, easily readable book - though with a solidly intellectual core - more than ripe for big prizes

Independent on Sunday

This is a brilliant evocation of the teeming back streets and bazaars of Delhi and the gulf between Indian life and western logic

Eve

This probably won't get within a bull's roar of the Booker shortlist. It should.The complexities of Dreams of Rivers and Seas are not the product of contrivance, but simply those of experience

Sunday Herald

With his constant switching of viewpoint, tense and emphasis, Parks, an extremely skilful storyteller, makes sure the novel's intensity never falters

Irish Times