Samskara: A Rite for A Dead Man by U.R. Ananthamurthy

Samskara: A Rite for A Dead Man

U.R. Ananthamurthy

158 pages first pub 1965 (editions)

fiction religion challenging reflective slow-paced
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Samskara is both a religious novel - about a decaying Brahmin colony in a south Indian village - and a contemporary poetic reworking of ancient Hindu themes and myths. Its central event is a death, which brings in its wake a plague, moral chaos an...

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