A River Sutra

Gita Mehta
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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. "Conveys a world that is spiritual, foreign, and entirely accessible."--Vanity Fair. Reading tour.
Genres: FictionIndiaIndian LiteratureShort StoriesAsiaLiteratureLiterary FictionReligionNovelsClassics
304 Pages

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