“A lucid, otherworldly trip on the undulating road to nirvana and self-discovery across the Indian subcontinent.”

                      Mario Rodrigues in The Statesman

   “Will Marks takes readers on an exhilarating motorcycle journey with his debut book, The Highway.”

                      Gouri Shah in The Economic Times

   “The Highway has that cult quality that makes readers on the road (physically and psychologically) pass a book on; the style is accomplished, the narrative complex and fulfilling.

   It’s a travelers book, rather than a travel book, a novel very much of the moment, combining the concept of a westerner’s spiritual quest among the ancient peoples and philosophies of Asia with the phenomenon of the global star, and the dislocation that comes with a globalised, endlessly reproduced image of the self.

   It’s an intelligent, adventurous, risk-taking novel with beautiful imagery rendering complex abstract ideas real and immediate. There is a poetic and esoteric sensibility at work here that touches on the mysteries of the universe, weaving them into a tale of a modern hero who takes his search for enlightenment on the road.”

                      Belinda Castles, Novelist

the highway

   Zac Goodman is lost in the Himalaya, no one knows if he is dead or alive, and the only clue is a manuscript found by Grant, his estranged travel companion.

   Zac writes of motorcycling with Grant on the Tibetan Plateau in northern India. They meet a rider strongly resembling Zac's dead brother Sam, but minutes later witness his violent death. Zac also suffers a blow to the head in the crash, but rides on to co-star in a Bollywood movie partially set on location at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery.

   Visions in meditation and an affair with a French yoga teacher propel Zac on a relentless journey through India, from paragliding over a Manali full-moon party, to mystical encounters in the sacred cities, to a violent reunion in Goa.

   Grant reads Zac's narrative during his rain soaked search in the mountains, and is increasingly drawn into it’s disquieting version of reality.

   The Highway journeys to the end of the road where wisdom and love are paid for in blood and personal transcendence blurs with apocalypse.

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