Geography of Heaven

A magnificent, heartfelt love story: a quest both ancient and entirely original * Jay Griffiths *In an extraordinary enterprise of astonishing scope and moving devotion, Rory Maclean throws himself into experiencing the rituals of worldwide cultures where they engage with the afterlife. The result is an epic of travel and a rich testament to an enduring love * Colin Thubron *This is an astonishing book. It tells of the determination of love, its capacity to transcend and earth, its refusal to stop before the membrane between the lovers is breached and truth - real, felt, undeniable, unmanufactured truth - emerges. MacLean travels every path available to the interior and has the skill to describe them all * Claire Gilbert, author of I, Julian *

Rory MacLean is one of Britain’s most expressive and adventurous non-fiction writers. His books, which have been translated into a dozen languages, include the UK top tens Stalin’s Nose and Under the Dragon, as well as Berlin: Imagine a City. The Washington Post named Berlin: Imagine a City a Book of the Year and called it “the most extraordinary work of history I’ve ever read.”

He has won awards from the Canada Council and the Arts Council of England and been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize. The late John le Carre wrote, “MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time.” He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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