The Home That I Never Left (Paperback)

Avula Vineeth Kumar

ISBN 13: 9798906063984

Published by Notion Press, 2026

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Paperback. At thirty-two, Arjun has built exactly the life he was told to want. A senior manager in Hyderabad, a title people respect, a family proud of him, a future mapped out in careful increments - by every visible measure, he has arrived.So why does a single unanswered question keep finding him? It arrives uninvited, mid-sentence, while someone else is still talking: What happens after you get everything you wanted?When the question finally breaks through the life he has spent a decade constructing, Arjun does the one thing his carefully managed world has never allowed him to do. He leaves - not in anger, and not for long, he tells himself. Just far enough to remember what he was building all of this for.His journey carries him from the burning ghats of Kashi to the river at Haridwar, into the ashrams of Rishikesh and the silence of the Himalayas, where an old sadhu who has spent forty years in a mountain cave is waiting to teach him something no achievement ever could.The Home That I Never Left is a quietly devastating novel about ambition, stillness, and the home we spend our lives searching for - without ever noticing we never really left it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Home That I Never Left (Paperback)
• Publisher: Notion Press
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798906063984
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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At thirty-two, Arjun has built exactly the life he was told to want. A senior manager in Hyderabad, a title people respect, a family proud of him, a future mapped out in careful increments - by every visible measure, he has arrived.So why does a single unanswered question keep finding him? It arrives uninvited, mid-sentence, while someone else is still talking: What happens after you get everything you wanted?When the question finally breaks through the life he has spent a decade constructing, Arjun does the one thing his carefully managed world has never allowed him to do. He leaves - not in anger, and not for long, he tells himself. Just far enough to remember what he was building all of this for.His journey carries him from the burning ghats of Kashi to the river at Haridwar, into the ashrams of Rishikesh and the silence of the Himalayas, where an old sadhu who has spent forty years in a mountain cave is waiting to teach him something no achievement ever could.The Home That I Never Left is a quietly devastating novel about ambition, stillness, and the home we spend our lives searching for - without ever noticing we never really left it.