Author: Margaret MazzantiniPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143121219
Category : Bosnians
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
A sweeping portrait of motherhood, loss, and redemption in war-torn Sarajevo.
Twice Born
Author: Margaret MazzantiniPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143121219
Category : Bosnians
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
A sweeping portrait of motherhood, loss, and redemption in war-torn Sarajevo.
Twice-born men
Author: Harold BegbieTwice-born Men
Author: Hy PickeringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Twice-Born
Author: Aatish TaseerPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715750
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revenge When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the intellectual and cultural elite of New Delhi. Nearly two decades later, Taseer leaves his life in Manhattan to go in search of the Brahmins, wanting to understand his own estrangement from India through their ties to tradition. Known as the twice-born—first into the flesh, and again when initiated into their vocation—the Brahmins are a caste devoted to sacred learning. But what Taseer finds in Benares, the holy city of death also known as Varanasi, is a window on an India as internally fractured as his own continent-bridging identity. At every turn, the seductive, homogenizing force of modernity collides with the insistent presence of the past. In a globalized world, to be modern is to renounce India—and yet the tide of nationalism is rising, heralded by cries of “Victory to Mother India!” and an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence. From the narrow streets of the temple town to a Modi rally in Delhi, among the blossoming cotton trees and the bathers and burning corpses of the Ganges, Taseer struggles to reconcile magic with reason, faith in tradition with hope for the future and the brutalities of the caste system, all the while challenging his own myths about himself, his past, and his countries old and new.
Twice-born Men
Author: Twice-born Men; True Conversion Records of 100 Well-known Men in All Ranks of Life
Author: Hy PickeringPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014944108
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
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All Who Go Do Not Return
Author: Shulem DeenPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 155597337X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faith Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world—only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression—turning on the radio—is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world.
Twice-born Men
Author: Henry PickeringTwice Born Men
Author: Harold BegbiePublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498009379
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
Twice Born Men
Author: Harold BegbiePublisher: carl (tuchy) palmieri
ISBN: 9781439224380
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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