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The author of the million-copy best-seller Ageless Body, Timeless Mind emerges as a powerful new force in fiction with a luminously written novel about the final act of the Arthurian legend playing out in modern England. The Return of Merlin is a brilliantly realized narrative that begins in Arthurian times and jumps boldly to our own 20th-century dark age of war, pollution, predation, and hatred--with a message of hope.
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f the million-copy best-seller <b>Ageless Body, Timeless Mind</b> emerges as a powerful new force in fiction with a luminously written novel about the final act of the Arthurian legend playing out in modern England. <b>The Return of Merlin</b> is a brilliantly realized narrative that begins in Arthurian times and jumps boldly to our own 20th-century dark age of war, pollution, predation, and hatred--with a message of hope.
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The bestselling holistic health guru and popularizer of Indian Ayurvedic medicine plunges into fiction with this oddly engaging, complex tale that grafts Arthurian legend onto a police procedural set in modern England. The story begins in Camelot, as the evil wizard Mordred, King Arthur's banished bastard son, blasts the kingdom to rubble. We then leap into a grimy 20th-century British country town, where police detective Arthur Callum is investigating a case of arson and possible murder. Chopra's conceit, only partly effective, is that Arthurian figures-Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Mordred, arch rival Merlin and others-live on through the centuries, secretly assuming the identities or occupying the souls of ordinary people. In addition to these royals, knights and mystics, the plot is replete with dragons, magic, Tarot cards, sacred stone circles, the Holy Grail, Arthur's sword, Excalibur, dreams and spells. As the forces of good and evil do battle, Chopra, with sparkling wit, spiritual insight and a light touch, weaves an inspirational parable imbued with the hope that trust, love, empathy and awareness will one day supplant fear, hatred and ignorance. This is a bold, occasionally brilliant retelling of Arthurian lore, at once livelier and less pedantic than the comparable The Celestine Prophecy but still inflected with Eastern wisdom and with Chopra's New Age perception of the temporally interconnected universe posited by quantum physics. Major ad/promo; simultaneous Random House Audio; author tour.
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The author of numerous New Age best sellers updates the story of Camelot in his first novel.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
One might think Dr. Chopra, New Age guru and best-selling self-help author, has his hands full explaining how we can all have ageless bodies and timeless minds, but apparently he has enough spare moments to dabble in fiction. He's taken on a daunting task for himself: re-creating the Camelot legend in modern dress and decorating it with New Age messages about reincarnation, redemption, and a reminder that we are all magical creatures. That's a lot for one book to take on, and Merlin often crumbles under the weight of its thematic baggage. That's too bad, because the tale itself, set mostly in modern England, does have a magical quality as it portrays Merlin and Mordred, each assisted by a revolving cast of characters, fighting for control of our outer and inner worlds. Some pages are riveting and others numbing, suggesting that part of the problem lies in the editing. It's not a good sign when a novel comes with a key (in this case, instructions on how to understand the symbolism); worse, when an author feels burdened to tell us that his story "is meant to be understood on many levels," it's a sure bet that the book is in danger of not being understood on any level. Considering Chopra's celebrity and his ability to gather publicity, this opus is certain to be in demand; whether it will actually be read is another question. Ilene Cooper
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