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A House Called Askival - five star read for $3.99 Kindle
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Give it a go - today is #ScottishEBookDay after all!
It's not philosophical on the surface, but it deals with the themes of guilt and family, and how people become the people they become, and viewing people through different perspectives and through time. I can't recommend it highly enough, not enough people know about it.
It's about a woman who returns to India after 24 years, to a home she grew up in as a missionary's daughter. It flips between that and the perspective of her missionary dad, and his own childhood, so there's a good spectrum of post-Partition India in there too that is supposedly very accurate (the author lived there herself in similar circumstances). Also, it's very readable - the thought-provokingness kind of takes you by surprise, it's not heavy handed. I enjoyed it so much.
It's currently on kindle promo and there are discounts from the publisher on bulk orders from book groups, should you be interested.
http://www.amazon.com/House-Called-As...