Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

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Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

SamskaraÂ is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of modern world literature, a book to set beside Chinua Achebeâ€™sÂ Things Fall ApartÂ and Tayeb Salihâ€™sÂ Season of Migration toÂ the North. Taking its name from a Sanskrit word that means â€œrite of passageâ€ but also â€œmoment of recognition,â€ it begins when Naranappa, an inhabitant of a small south Indian town and a renegade Brahmin who has scandalously flouted the rules of caste and purity for years, eating meat, drinking alcohol, marrying beneath him, mocking God, unexpectedly falls ill and dies. The question of whether he should be buried as a Brahmin divides the other Brahmins in the village. For an answer they turn to Praneshacharyah, the most devout and respected member of their community, an ascetic who also tends religiously to his invalid wife.
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Praneshacharyah finds himself unable to provide the answer, though an answer is urgently needed since as he wonders and the villagers wait and the body festers, more and more people are falling sick and dying. But when Praneshacharyah goes to the temple to seek a sign from God, he discovers something else entirelyâ€”unless that something else is also God.
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SamskaraÂ is a tale of existential suspense, a life-and-death encounter between the sacred and the profane, the pure and the impure, the ascetic and the erotic.

Country	USA
Author	U.R. Ananthamurthy
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781590179130
Label	NYRB Classics
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
NumberOfPages	176
PublicationDate	2017-01-10
Publisher	NYRB Classics
ReleaseDate	2017-01-10
Studio	NYRB Classics

Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

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