A River Sutra - Hardcover

Mehta, Gita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038547007X ISBN 13: 9780385470070

Publisher: Nan A. Talese, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of interwoven stories, written in the traditional form of Indian storytelling, explores the savagery of human love and illuminate the paradoxes of India. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

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The banks of the Narmada River are said to contain 400 billion sacred places. It is this river, the holiest in India, that is the setting for Gita Mehta's lushly imagined novel, which fuses the traditions of Indian narrative with thoroughly contemporary insights into the nature of love - love carnal and sublime, treacherous, maddening, and redeeming.

Mehta's river is a place where travelers and their stories intersect unpredictably: where a millionaire mendicant comes to lay down the burden of his wealth; a sybaritic playboy wanders in a trance of erotic possessions; where an aging courtesan seeks her kidnapped daughter. Populated by bandits, naked ascetics, and ecstatic singers, A River Sutra is as intoxicating as the scent of sandal wood and as exalting as a classic raga.

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"Enchanting...somewhat comic, sometimes tragic and always filled with insights...A delight to read, bringing to Western readers the mystery and drama of a rich cultural heritage."-- The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 038547007X
• ISBN 13: 9780385470070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 291