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I freely admit that I more or less bought "A River Sutra" because it was the recommended book with the prettiest cover (Note: The Vintage paperback, not the other editions!).
The back blurb tells us that this book "tells the story of a retired bureaucrat who has escaped the world to spend his twilight years running a guest-house on the banks of the country's holiest river, the Narmada".
To be honest, there is not much guest-house running involved. There are people arriving and leaving ...more
I freely admit that I more or less bought "A River Sutra" because it was the recommended book with the prettiest cover (Note: The Vintage paperback, not the other editions!).
The back blurb tells us that this book "tells the story of a retired bureaucrat who has escaped the world to spend his twilight years running a guest-house on the banks of the country's holiest river, the Narmada".
To be honest, there is not much guest-house running involved. There are people arriving and leaving ...more
Nov 08, 2007
Fenixbird SandS
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Angela
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Agata
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Juniper
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Sarah
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