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Samskara : a rite for a dead man / U.R. Ananthamurthy ; translated from the Kannada by A.K. Ramanujan. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Kannada Series: New York Review Books classicsPublication details: New York : New York Review Books, (c)2016.Description: viii, 158 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781590179123
  • 9781590179130
Uniform titles:
  • Samskara. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PL4659.R165.S267 2016
  • PL4659
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Subject: Samskara is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of modern world literature, a book to set beside Chinua Achebe s Things Fall Apart and Tayeb Salih s Season of Migration to the North. Taking its name from a Sanskrit word that means rite of passage but also moment of recognition, 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.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction PL4659.A5 S213 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001700448

"Originally published in English in 1976 by Oxford University Press India and reprinted here by arrangement with the publisher"--Title page verso.

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Samskara is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of modern world literature, a book to set beside Chinua Achebe s Things Fall Apart and Tayeb Salih s Season of Migration to the North. Taking its name from a Sanskrit word that means rite of passage but also moment of recognition, 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.

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