An End to Suffering

Pankaj Mishra (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2014
Picador (Verlag)
978-1-4472-7392-9 (ISBN)

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The Buddha, his life and legacy -- refracted through one man's search for identity and one nation's experience of independence

An accomplished history of the Buddha, An End to Suffering is also a deeply personal story -- the story of Pankaj Mishra's search for meaning, for truth and peace in the modern world and, specifically, in post-colonial, independent India. As he describes his travels to unearth the origins of the Buddha, Mishra offers glimpses into his own quest for enlightenment, from childhood to September 11, from family background to friends met and made, from lessons learned to achievements as a writer. Through this, Mishra reveals the parallels between his time and the Buddha's, between their respective journeys -- and that of their country -- in search of progress and reconciliation.

Pankaj Mishra's books include The Romantics, which won the LA Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for fiction, Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire. He contributes political and literary essays to the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.2014
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	676 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-4472-7392-3 / 1447273923
ISBN-13	978-1-4472-7392-9 / 9781447273929
Zustand	Neuware