The Delight of Being Ordinary: A Road Trip with the Pope and the Dalai Lama
✍ Scribed by Merullo, Roland
- Book ID
- 109907471
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 527 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385540919
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✦ Synopsis
Roland Merullo's playful, eloquent, and life-affirming novel finds the Pope and the Dalai Lama teaming up for an unsanctioned road trip through the Italian countryside to rediscover the everyday joys of life that can seem, even for the two holiest men in the world, unattainable.
What happens when the Pope and the Dali Lama decide they need an undercover vacation? During a highly publicized official visit at the Vatican, the Pope suggests an adventure so unexpected and appealing that neither man can resist. Before dawn, two of the most beloved and famous people on the planet don disguises, slip into a waiting car, and experience the countryside as regular people. Along for the ride are the Pope's overwhelmed cousin Paolo and his estranged wife Rosa, an eccentric hairdresser with a lust for life who cannot resist the call to adventure—or the fun.
Against a landscape of good humor, exploration and spiritual delight, not to mention the sublime rolling hills of...
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