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A River Sutra

With imaginative lushness and narrative elan, Mehta provides a novel that combines Indian storytelling with thoroughly modern perceptions into the nature of love—love both carnal and sublime, treacherous and redeeming. "Conveys a world that is spiritual, foreign, and entirely accessible."—Vanity Fair. Reading tour.

Themes
religionislam
Subject
philosophy
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

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