Face of Darkness - Softcover
Answering the call to adventure from his poet’s heart, young Paul Dev traverses Eurasia’s vastness, from India to England—the golden land of his dreams. Embracing the exotic and sublime, Face of Darkness is an engaging tale of underground migration, probing reflection, and Karmic destiny. India’s mighty hold on Dev—as witnessed in a series of remembrances of caste restrictions, Partition’s terrors, pubescent intrigues, enticing nymphs, deflowered ascetics, and brutal criminality—yields to a glut of sensual indulgences as East meets West. With the threat of capture driving Dev’s fear of not attaining his goal, he reluctantly abandons lusty liaisons in Lahore, Samarkand, Krakow, and Amsterdam. During a poignantly transcendent search for his “inner Elysium,” while doomed and adrift in a sealed cask in the frigid English Channel, Dev ultimately embraces Death to survive. Cruel Fate, however, sees his promising life extinguished by the hand of bigotry at journey’s end.
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- PublisherPublishamerica Inc
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1608134067
- ISBN 13 9781608134069
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages228
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