{"product_id":"samskara-a-rite-for-a-dead-man-paperback","title":"Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eU. R. Ananthamurthy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eA. K. Ramanujan\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSamskara \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the acknowledged masterpieces of modern world literature, a book to set beside Chinua Achebe's \u003ci\u003eThings Fall Apart \u003c\/i\u003eand Tayeb Salih's \u003ci\u003eSeason of Migration to\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ethe North\u003c\/i\u003e. Taking its name from a Sanskrit word that means \"rite of passage\" but also \"moment of recognition,\" it begins when Naranappa, an inhabitant of a small south Indian town and a renegade Brahmin who has scandalously flouted the rules of caste and purity for years, eating meat, drinking alcohol, marrying beneath him, mocking God, unexpectedly falls ill and dies. The question of whether he should be buried as a Brahmin divides the other Brahmins in the village. For an answer they turn to Praneshacharyah, the most devout and respected member of their community, an ascetic who also tends religiously to his invalid wife. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Praneshacharyah finds himself unable to provide the answer, though an answer is urgently needed since as he wonders and the villagers wait and the body festers, more and more people are falling sick and dying. But when Praneshacharyah goes to the temple to seek a sign from God, he discovers something else entirely--unless that something else is also God.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSamskara \u003c\/i\u003eis a tale of existential suspense, a life-and-death encounter between the sacred and the profane, the pure and the impure, the ascetic and the erotic.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eU.R. Ananthamurthy\u003c\/b\u003e (1932-2014) was a novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was one of India's most celebrated modern writers, a recipient of the Jnanpith Award (India's foremost literary prize), and an important representative of the New Movement in Kannada-language literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA.K. Ramanujan\u003c\/b\u003e (1929-1993) was born Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan in Mysore, India. He is a poet in English and Kannada, a translator from Kannada and Tamil, as well as a scholar, folklorist, philologist, playwright, and essayist. NYRB Poets publishes \u003ci\u003eThe Interior Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology of classical Tamil poems translated by Ramanujan.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247123054841,"sku":"9781590179123","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/enFhSWE2QVQ4cThwZUZaZHhKRktKdz09.webp?v=1768620970","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/samskara-a-rite-for-a-dead-man-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}