Birdwatching: A Novel
Stephen Alter . Aleph Book Company . English
A Breathtaking Espionage Thriller set during 1962, the defining year of the Cold War. Guy Fletcher, a young American Fulbright Scholar conducting Ph.D. research on migratory geese in India, grew up in New Delhi during the mid-fifties, and was enjoying a nostalgic return to a country he had always considered his second home. However, when Fletcher discovers the body of a murdered man in the diplomatic enclave of India�s capital, he is thrust into a tangled conspiracy involving the CIA, India�s intelligence agencies, Chinese spies and Tibetan guerrilla fighters. Set against the historical backdrop of Jackie Kennedy''s visit to India, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Indo-China border war, this novel brings to life a period of history that could have ended in a Nuclear Armageddon.
Categories: Fiction
About the Author
Stephen Alter is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction. Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth, his most recent work of non-fiction, received the 2020 Banff Mountain Book Award in the Mountain Environment and Natural History category. His memoir, Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime, received the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Himalayan Literature. In the Jungles of the Night: A Novel about Jim Corbett was shortlisted for the DSC South Asian Literature Award. Alter has taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, where he was director of the writing program for seven years. Following this, he was writer-in-residence at MIT for ten years. Among the honours he has received are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the East West Centre in Hawaii, and the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture. He is also the founding director of the Mussoorie Mountain Festival.
