Dinner with Buddha

✍ Scribed by Merullo, Roland

• Book ID: 108205642
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 715 KB
• Series: Breakfast With Buddha 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781565129283

✦ Synopsis

Algonquin's long-awaited follow-up to Breakfast with Buddha --one of our best-loved "word of mouth" bestsellers (with 200,000 copies in print)--finds Otto Ringling and Mongolian monk Volya Rinpoche on another unexpected road trip of discovery.
In Roland Merullo's Breakfast with Buddha an inveterate skeptic and a world-renowned spiritual master set off across America; the Boston Globe raved, "Enlightenment meets On the Road, in this witty, insightful novel." Now, some eight years later, the world has spun a few times, and what had been certainties in both men's lives have proved fleeting. Otto's future is less than clear after the death of his wife, the departure of his children to make their own lives, and the loss of the only remaining structure in his life--his long-held job. For Rinpoche, the changes have been less daunting but nonetheless dramatic, as the encroachment of both technology and daily society threaten the...