Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Jaed Coffin holds a B.A. in philosophy from Middlebury College and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast Writing Program. A boxer, sea-kayaker, and lobster fisherman, he lives in Brunswick, Maine. Zusammenfassung Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England's privileged Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother's native village of Panomsarakram--thus fulfilling a familial obligation. While addressing the notions of displacement, ethnic identity, and cultural belonging, A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants chronicles his time at the temple that rain season--receiving alms in the streets in saffron robes; bathing in the canals; learning to meditate in a mountaintop hut; and falling in love with Lek, a beautiful Thai woman who comes to represent the life he can have if he stays. Part armchair travel, part coming-of-age story, this debut work transcends the memoir genre and ushers in a brave new voice in American nonfiction.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jaed Coffin
• Verlag: Perseus Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780306815263
• ISBN: 978-0-306-81526-3
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Weitere Religionen; Reise > Reiseberichte, Reiseerzählungen > Welt, Arktis ,Antarktis; RELIGION / Buddhism / History, TRAVEL / Asia / Southeast