Spanning centuries, covering the globe, and encompassing politics, philosophy and religion, The End of Suffering is both unprecedented in its scope and immaculate in its execution. An accomplished and impressive history of the Buddha...more details Format:hardback Pages:400
The Buddha, his life and legacy -- refracted through one man's search for identity and one nation's experience of independence An accomplished history of the Buddha...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:448
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Pankaj Mishra
ISBN:9780312425098
"An End to Suffering" tells of Pankaj Mishra's search to understand the Buddha's relevance in today's world, where religious violence, poverty and terrorism prevail. As he travels among Islamists and the emerging Hindu Muslim class in India...more details Format:Paperback Pages:422
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Pankaj Mishra
ISBN:9780374148362
"An End to Suffering" is a deeply original and provocative book about the Buddha's life and his influence throughout history, told in the form of the author's search to understand the Buddha's relevance in a world where class oppression and religious violence are rife...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:432
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Pankaj Mishra
ISBN:9780330491051
The story of Pankaj Mishra's search for meaning, for truth and peace in the modern world and, specifically, in post-colonial, independent India. As he describes his travels to unearth the origins of Buddha...more details Format:paperback Pages:464
A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra travelled through the small towns of India and found they had shed their sleepy, half-apologetic air; brash and ostentatious...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Pankaj Mishra
ISBN:9780330392778
A first novel set in contemporary India, this book describes how Samar, a young Brahmin, escapes a future of small-town jobs to live in Benares...more details Format:Paperback Pages:200
The narrator of this book is a naive young man who comes in live in Benares. It evokes the frustration of a young man in modern India, juxtaposing the two very startling sides of life there as he is propelled into a bewildering world....more details Format:Hardback Pages:220
From Bollywood stars in Bombay worrying whether they are sexy enough to a heroin addict in Pakistan mocking jihad; from Indian mafia dons with political ambitions to Afghans waiting for American benevolence...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:448
A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice In "Temptations of the West, " Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on journeys through South Asia...more details Format:Hardback
A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice In "Temptations of the West, " Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on journeys through South Asia...more details Format:Paperback Pages:323
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Pankaj Mishra
ISBN:9780374173210
A vivid, often surprising account of South Asia today by the author of "An End to Suffering" In his new book, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on travels that are at once epic and personal. Traveling in the changing cultures of South Asia...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:323
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J G Farrell;Pankaj Mishra
ISBN:9781590170922
Winner of the booker prize. India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's "The Siege of Krishnapur...more details Format:Paperback Pages:376