Kirin Narayan 
My Family and Other Saints [EPUB ebook] 

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In 1969, young Kirin Narayan s older brother, Rahoul, announced that he was quitting school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. From boyhood, his restless creativity had continually surprised his family, but his departure shook up everyone especially Kirin, who adored her high-spirited, charismatic brother.A touching, funny, and always affectionate memoir, My Family and Other Saints traces the reverberations of Rahoul’s spiritual journey through the entire family. As their beachside Bombay home becomes a crossroads for Westerners seeking Eastern enlightenment, Kirin s sari-wearing American mother wholeheartedly embraces ashrams and gurus, adopting her son s spiritual quest as her own. Her Indian father, however, coins the term urug guru spelled backward to mock these seekers, while young Kirin, surrounded by radiant holy men, parents drifting apart, and a motley of young, often eccentric Westerners, is left to find her own answers. Deftly recreating the turbulent emotional world of her bicultural adolescence, but overlaying it with the hard-won understanding of adulthood, Narayan presents a large, rambunctious cast of quirky characters. Throughout, she brings to life not just a family but also a time when just about everyone, it seemed, was consumed by some sort of spiritual quest. A lovely book about the author’s youth in Bombay, India. . . . The family home becomes a magnet for truth-seekers, and Narayan is there to affectionately document all of it. Body + Soul Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayan’s enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay. William Grimes, New York Times

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Ngôn ngữ Anh ● định dạng EPUB ● ISBN 9780226568157 ● Nhà xuất bản University of Chicago Press ● Được phát hành 2008 ● Có thể tải xuống 3 lần ● Tiền tệ EUR ● TÔI 5659461 ● Sao chép bảo vệ Adobe DRM
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