Blinding Light

Paul Theroux

Take a journey into the forbidden – the erotic, the remote, the uncharted.

Slade Steadman has written one of the most famous travel books ever. But he has been unable to write anything else for thirty years. A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador among the Secoya Indians gives him the experience he has been seeking – and a miracle drug. He returns to the USA with the drug, which induces temporary blindness.  He is energized – able not only to write and remember, but granted an almost uncanny prescience, bordering on second sight.

A dazzling and disturbing story of revelation and creativity, Blinding Light is a tour de force from a writer at the height of his powers.

‘A terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales’  Sunday Times

‘Theroux’s prose leaps to life like a mosaic splashed with water’  Spectator

Paul Theroux is the author of many bestselling books, both fiction and non-fiction, including, most recently, Dark Star Safari and The Stranger at the Palazzo d’Oro.