Shangri-La and Other Stories |
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Author:
| Darius, Dani |
ISBN: | 978-1-4828-1296-1 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
Publisher: | Author Solutions, LLC
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Imprint: | PartridgeIndia |
Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $4.99 |
Book Description:
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In these impressionistic and mystical stories and sketches, identities flow into one another in the drag of time--often unknowingly maintaining adversarial relations to each other in the general symbiotic culture. Here you find an aging escort sipping on gin-n-juice in a hotel in McLeod Ganj; a quaint brass-deity come haunting an Indo-Tibetan youth; a poacher, called Bucephalia, hunting down a musk deer in a dale in Kashmir; a Daoist shrine-keeper casting a Vedic horoscope. Whether it...
More DescriptionIn these impressionistic and mystical stories and sketches, identities flow into one another in the drag of time--often unknowingly maintaining adversarial relations to each other in the general symbiotic culture. Here you find an aging escort sipping on gin-n-juice in a hotel in McLeod Ganj; a quaint brass-deity come haunting an Indo-Tibetan youth; a poacher, called Bucephalia, hunting down a musk deer in a dale in Kashmir; a Daoist shrine-keeper casting a Vedic horoscope. Whether it is the Buddha emerging from a veil of mist or the surge of humanity converging in the Kumbha-Mela, it takes you to the seductive realm of intertwined patterns of destiny which nevertheless transcends space and time, cultural and religious boundaries.