Used book – Indigo, Catherine Cusset

A cultural festival in India brings together four French people, two men and two women, who do not know each other, for eight days. A surprise awaits each of them, confronting them with their past. This week turns their lives upside down. From Delhi to Kovalam in the South, they travel through a hyper-vigilant India where, just one year after the Mumbai attacks, the terrorist threat is palpable everywhere. An India where their young Indian guide openly declares his hatred of the United States. An India where French lightness and reason have no place, where the heat heightens emotions, where the sky before a storm is indigo. While unfolding events with precise and effective narrative mechanics, Catherine Cusset's new novel reveals a complex, tormented, captivating humanity.