Description
From the award-winning author of Toxic Spirits comes a new and heartbreakingnovel about cruelty and marginalization, and the struggle to find meaning in a worldof mounting prejudice and false belief.Gay but still closeted and missing his wife Helen — who has fled their home tobecome a Buddhist nun — Ali Akbar returns in old age from California to India.At the Deer Park where the Buddha gave his first sermon, he comes across a flyerthat promises to teach him how to find love again. After being assaulted outside thepark at a parade led by a religious fundamentalist, Ali attempts to make good on thepromise of the flyer, traveling from Benares up towards the icy heights of MountKailash. Along the way, Ali is forced to come to terms with the relentless sexualabuse he suffered in childhood in India, as well as his personal failures, including hisexpulsion from Cambridge University, his failed career hopes, and most of all, hisrelationships with Helen and their daughter Homa. Navigating between competingfundamentalisms that mark a time of social collapse, Ali tries, in the time that hehas left, to seize that last chance to find love again -- even if it takes a very differentform from what he expected.Steeped in the philosophies of classical Greece and India, and layered with colorfultravelogues in India, England, and the US, The Conquest of Kailash is written in Mani’scharacteristically atmospheric and humane style that has attracted readers worldwide.
Details
Publisher - Ukiyoto Publishing
Language - English
Case Bound - PPC
Contributors
By author
Inderjeet Mani
Published Date - 2024-06-04
ISBN - 9789362691583
Dimensions - 22.5 x 15 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 242
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