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    <body><![CDATA[This book is nominally about an Indian clerk who has retired to the Narmada River, but it reads as a collection of stories more than a single cohesive book.  This isn't too much of a flaw, though, since each of the stories is lovely and could stand up on its own.  Each story is about someone the cle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24612358">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting book if only for the fact that I am always curious about other cultures. This book is set on the Narmada river in India and is told by a man who is trying to pull himself away from the world. He is met by some very interesting people with even more interesting stories that he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70480383">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The narrator of the book was a bureaucrat. He travels through out India to find knowledge and good in this world. The narrator listens to people's stories about how they found religion, and how they became to worship this sacred river called the Narmada. His main goal is to find serenity and peace, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70103381">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A nicely written, peek into a somewhat different world. Smooth and easy to digest. I found myself trying to actually see the bungalow, the jungle and more importantly the river, in my mind. The chapter about the poor, little singing child really threw me at the end.<br/><br/>All in all, makes me w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24076589">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Of the many stories and themes that flow through A River Sutra, one stands out above all: passion.  The individual stories that are told alongside this river are both awe-inspiring and heartbreaking.  Altogether, these stories of passion, the story of A River Sutra, function to demonstrate the funct...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35633931">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A government bureaucrat retired from the world to run a rest house on the banks of the Narmanda River, the holiest river in India, meets travelers, ascetics, mendicants and the troubled. The background is holy sites, glimpses into cultures and peoples and life lessons that usually take a lifetime to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54520845">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one from the Indian Canon:<br/>I had high hopes for this book, and perhaps that contributed to my disappointment when I finished it.  The novel progresses by using a main character - a retired bureaucrat who is looking for the peace and ascetic lifestyle of those who renounce life - as the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24323565">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A River Sutra]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book of nested short stories.  I'm not a big short story reader but this one has such a fascinating setting.  A river in India and people pursuing differing religious or mystical or artistic practices raised to the level of religion.  ]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book of short stories told by travelers to the sacred Narmada River that evokes the cultures, folklore, and religions of India. Fascinating stories told in first person to a retired civil servant. Nice glossary in back.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't get to finish this book. It literally grew legs and walked away as I was eagerly anticipating the final 100 pages. Great stories that intertwine... need to get it from the library.]]></body>
    
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  <date_added>Mon May 19 12:30:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[First let me say that I reserve the right to change my rating  (upward) on this book. I just finished it and I am having a hard time deciding how I feel about it on many levels. To this extent alone, it must be a pretty good book as I am done with it but still thinking about it. It is well written a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22563356">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read it but I think I have to re-read it because I can't remember it....]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[With imaginative lushness and narrative elan, Mehta provides a novel that combines Indian storytelling with thoroughly modern perceptions into the nature of love--love both carnal and sublime, treacherous and redeeming. &quot;Conveys a world that is spiritual, foreign, and entirely accessible.&quot;--Vanity Fair. Reading tour.]]>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book in a weird store that sells mostly used magazines and &quot;teen&quot; books.  Strange.  But at the time I was desperate for books in English (I can and do read in Spanish but it doesn´t soothe my soul like my mother tongue) and looking everywhere.  This book is another novel wher...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8863934">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[With imaginative lushness and narrative elan, Mehta provides a novel that combines Indian storytelling with thoroughly modern perceptions into the nature of love--love both carnal and sublime, treacherous and redeeming. &quot;Conveys a world that is spiritual, foreign, and entirely accessible.&quot;--Vanity Fair. Reading tour.]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a lovely read.  It is filled with joy,sadness but is easy to live with and take in.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[wonderful, magic, mysterious, surprising]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[lyric &amp; sweet]]></body>
    
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