My Family and Other Saints

Zusammenfassung In 1969, Kirin Narayan's older brother, Rahoul, announced that he was quitting school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. From boyhood, his restless creativity had continually surprised his family, but his departure shook up everyone. This memoir traces the reverberations of Rahoul's spiritual journey through the entire family.

Product details

• Authors: Kirin Narayan, Narayan Kirin
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2008
• EAN: 9780226568218
• ISBN: 978-0-226-56821-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, RELIGION / Spirituality, India, Spirituality & religious experience, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, Spirituality and religious experience, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, HISTORY / Asia / South / India