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The cauliflower : a novel / Nicola Barker. by Barker, Nicola, 1966- Henry Holt and Company, 2016. Call #: FICTION BAR Subjects Ramakrishna, 1836-1886 -- Fiction.   Families -- Fiction.   Uncles -- Fiction.   Hindus -- Fiction.   Hindu saints -- Fiction.   India -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781627797191 (hc.) 162779719X (hc.) Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  291 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "From Man Booker-shortlisted, IMPAC Award-winning author Nicola Barker comes an exuberant, multi-voiced new novel mapping the extraordinary life and legacy of a 19th-century Hindu saint. He is only four years older, but still I call him Uncle, and when I am with Uncle I have complete faith in him. I would die for Uncle. I have an indescribable attraction towards Uncle. It was ever thus. To the world, he is Sri Ramakrishna--godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru (who would prefer not to be called a guru), irresistible charmer. To Rani Rashmoni, she of low caste and large inheritance, he is the brahmin fated to defy tradition and preside over the temple she dares to build, six miles north of Calcutta, along the banks of the Hooghly for Ma Kali, goddess of destruction. But to Hriday, his nephew and longtime caretaker, he is just Uncle--maddening, bewildering Uncle, prone to entering ecstatic trances at the most inconvenient of times, known to sneak out to the forest at midnight to perform dangerous acts of self-effacement, who must be vigilantly safeguarded not only against jealous enemies and devotees with ulterior motives, but also against that most treasured yet insidious of sulfur-rich vegetables: the cauliflower. Rather than puzzling the shards of history and legend together, Barker shatters the mirror again and rearranges the pieces. The result is a biographical novel viewed through a kaleidoscope. Dazzlingly inventive and brilliantly comic, irreverent and mischievous, The Cauliflower delivers us into the divine playfulness of a 21st-century literary master"--From publisher. Genre:  Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Literary fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION BAR Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION BAR Adult books Checked out Jul 21, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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