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My Family and Other Saints
Kirin Narayan
出版University of Chicago Press, 2008-09-15
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian & Asian AmericanBiography & Autobiography / ReligiousBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsFamily & Relationships / GeneralHistory / Asia / South / IndiaReligion / EasternReligion / Hinduism / GeneralSocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / ArchaeologySocial Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
ISBN02265682109780226568218
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=03qiAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In 1969, young Kirin Narayan’s older brother, Rahoul, announced that he was quitting school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. From boyhood, his restless creativity had continually surprised his family, but his departure shook up everyone— especially Kirin, who adored her high-spirited, charismatic brother.
A touching, funny, and always affectionate memoir, My Family and Other Saints traces the reverberations of Rahoul's spiritual journey through the entire family. As their beachside Bombay home becomes a crossroads for Westerners seeking Eastern enlightenment, Kirin’s sari-wearing American mother wholeheartedly embraces ashrams and gurus, adopting her son’s spiritual quest as her own. Her Indian father, however, coins the term “urug”—guru spelled backward—to mock these seekers, while young Kirin, surrounded by radiant holy men, parents drifting apart, and a motley of young, often eccentric Westerners, is left to find her own answers. Deftly recreating the turbulent emotional world of her bicultural adolescence, but overlaying it with the hard-won understanding of adulthood, Narayan presents a large, rambunctious cast of quirky characters. Throughout, she brings to life not just a family but also a time when just about everyone, it seemed, was consumed by some sort of spiritual quest.
“A lovely book about the author's youth in Bombay, India. . . . The family home becomes a magnet for truth-seekers, and Narayan is there to affectionately document all of it.”—Body + Soul “Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayan's enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay.”—William Grimes, New York Times