Anantha Murthy, U. R.,  1932-2014, <br/><br/>
Samskara :  a rite for a dead man /  [print] 
U.R. Ananthamurthy ; translated from the Kannada by A.K. Ramanujan. 
 - New York :  New York Review Books,  (c)2016. 
 - viii, 158 pages ;  21 cm. 
 - New York Review Books classics .
 - New York Review Books classics. .
<br/><br/> "Originally published in English in 1976 by Oxford University Press India and reprinted here by arrangement with the publisher"--Title page verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781590179123 9781590179130 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016019584 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Funeral rites and ceremonies--India--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PL4659.R165.S267 2016 PL4659