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"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
- Charles Caleb Colton,
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 291 pages
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 0679752471
Release Date: Jan 8, 1999
| |  | | | In Brief
The narrator of this novel set in India "has left his high-ranking government job and the bustling life of the city for the tranquility of the country. He manages a rest house along the banks of the sacred Narmada River, devoting quiet hours to contemplation of the river's might, mystery, and beauty. .. . Pilgrims from all walks of life make their way to the holy river. As ourinnkeeper converses with these troubled travelers, he becomes . . . immersed in their {stories}. . . . A millionaire renounces his wealth and becomes a monk; an ascetic rescues a child from a whorehouse; and a homely woman finds beauty in music." (Booklist)
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Set on the banks of India's holiest river amid the constant traffic of pilgrims, archaeologists, policemen, priests, and traders, A River Sutra weaves the richness of India into the dangerous lives of its characters. A bureaucrat retires to the sacred river in search of tranquility only to encounter a girl fleeing her kidnappers, a naked ascetic and the child he has saved from prostitution, a teacher who confesses to murder, a millionaire monk, and a musician silenced by desire. Instead of finding serenity, the bureaucrat is forced to confront the powers of mythology, religion, music, and philosophy, and to acknowledge that the holy river has a sanctity more threatening than he can imagine. In this exquisitely written novel, Gita Mehta uses the traditional forms of Indian story-telling to explore the savagery of human love and to illuminate the paradoxes of India.
| | | | Annotation
Set on the banks of India's holiest river, amid the unceasing traffic of pilgrims, archaeologists, policemen, priests, and traders, these stories explore ths savagery of human love and illuminate the paradoxes of life in India.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
A bureaucrat retires to India's holiest river in search of tranquility, only to encounter a teacher who confesses to murder, a girl fleeing her kidnapper, and a naked ascetic who teaches him that "a man who cannot suffer is not alive"
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Fiction, India, Tales, Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Narmada River Region, Narmada River Valley, Narmada River (India), Narmada River Region (India), Pilgrims and pilgrimages, India, Narmada River Valley, Fiction, Tales, Fiction - General, Literary
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