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The far Himālaya: a novel

✍ Scribed by Phillip Ernest

Book ID
104535725
Publisher
Linda Leith Publishing; Linda Leith éditions
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
127 B
Category
Fiction
City
Toronto (Ont.
ISBN
1773900005

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✦ Synopsis

Young and homeless on the streets of Toronto, a fugitive from an unquiet past that has followed him from his hometown in Northern Ontario, Benjamin Doheney is sustained by unusual sources of strength: his devotion to Sanskrit, the ancient literary language of India; the love he shares with Aditi, a PhD student in Sanskrit at the University of Toronto; and his vision of a future with her in India, a land in which she has her own troubled history, and which he has never seen. Before they can move on, they must extricate her from the clutches of her twisted and malevolent PhD supervisor, with the help of his old enemy, a good professor emeritus who has taken the prodigious Ben under his wing, and of Moksha Das, a homeless alcoholic poet and scholar, Ben's difficult guru and friend. When a mysterious murder on campus threatens to draw the police's attention to Moksha, Ben and Aditi contrive to remove him to his old ashram north of the city. But events now begin to spiral out of...

✦ Subjects

Toronto (Ont.) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc

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