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Автор: Champaneri Priyanka
Название: The City of Good Death
ISBN: 9781632062529
Издательство: Restless Books
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Модернистская и современная художественная литература

Художественная литература о приведениях и ужасах

ISBN-10: 1632062526
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 384
Вес: 0.82 кг.
Дата издания: 02.06.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 155 x 43
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Поставляется из: США
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Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneris transcendent debut novel brings us inside Indias holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.

Banaras, Varanasi, Kashi: Indias holy city on the banks of the Ganges has many names but holds one ultimate promise for Hindus. It is the place where pilgrims come for a good death, to be released from the cycle of reincarnation by purifying fire. As the dutiful manager of a death hostel in Kashi, Pramesh welcomes the dying and assists families bound for the funeral pyres that burn constantly on the ghats. The soul is gone, the body is burnt, the time is past, he tells them. Detach.

After ten years in the timeless city, Pramesh can nearly persuade himself that here, there is no past or future. He lives contentedly at the death hostel with his wife, Shobha, their young daughter, Rani, the hostel priests, his hapless but winning assistant, and the constant flow of families with their dying. But one day the past arrives in the lifeless form of a man pulled from the river--a man with an uncanny resemblance to Pramesh.

Called twins in their childhood village, he and his cousin Sagar are inseparable until Pramesh leaves to see the outside world and Sagar stays to tend the land. After Pramesh marries Shobha, defying his familys wishes, a rift opens up between the cousins that he has long since tried to forget. Do not look back. Detach. But for Shobha, Sagars reemergence casts a shadow over the life shes built for her family. Soon, an unwelcome guest takes up residence in the death hostel, the dying mysteriously continue to live, and Pramesh is forced to confront his own ideas about death, rebirth, and redemption.

Told in lush, vivid detail and with an unforgettable cast of characters, The City of Good Death is a remarkable debut novel of family and love, memory and ritual, and the ways in which we honor the living and the dead.

The City of Good Death, Champaneri Priyanka