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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Champaneri, Priyanka.     Subjects     Hospices (Terminal care) -- Fiction.     Hospice care -- Fiction.     Older people -- Death -- Fiction.     Hinduism -- Fiction.     Death -- Fiction.     Reincarnation -- Fiction.     Families -- Fiction.     Cousins -- Death -- Fiction.     Redemption -- Fiction.     India -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Champaneri, Priyanka.       by title:      The city of good dea...       by call number:      FICTION CHA     Search the Web     Champaneri, Priyanka.     Hospices (Terminal care) -- Fiction.     Hospice care -- Fiction.     Older people -- Death -- Fiction.     Hinduism -- Fiction.     Death -- Fiction.     Reincarnation -- Fiction.     Families -- Fiction.     Cousins -- Death -- Fiction.     Redemption -- Fiction.     India -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The city of good death : a novel / Priyanka Champaneri. by Champaneri, Priyanka. Restless Books, 2021. Call #: FICTION CHA Subjects Hospices (Terminal care) -- Fiction.   Hospice care -- Fiction.   Older people -- Death -- Fiction.   Hinduism -- Fiction.   Death -- Fiction.   Reincarnation -- Fiction.   Families -- Fiction.   Cousins -- Death -- Fiction.   Redemption -- Fiction.   India -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781632062529 (hc.) Edition:  1st Restless Books hardcover ed. Description:  xii, 433 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "Banaras, Varanasi, Kashi: India's holy city on the banks of the Ganges has many names but holds one ultimate promise for Hindus. It is the place where pilgrims come for a good death, to be released from the cycle of reincarnation by purifying fire. As the dutiful manager of a death hostel in Kashi, Pramesh welcomes the dying and assists families bound for the funeral pyres that burn constantly on the ghats. The soul is gone, the body is burnt, the time is past, he tells them. Detach. After ten years in the timeless city, Pramesh can nearly persuade himself that here, there is no past or future. He lives contentedly at the death hostel with his wife, Shobha, their young daughter, Rani, the hostel priests, his hapless but willing assistant, and the constant flow of families with their dying kin. But one day the past arrives in the lifeless form of a man pulled from the river - a man with an uncanny resemblance to Pramesh. Called "twins" in their childhood village, he and his cousin Sagar are inseparable until Pramesh leaves to see the outside world and Sagar stays to tend the land. After Pramesh marries Shobha, defying his family's wishes, a rift opens up between the cousins that he has long since tried to forget. Do not look back. Detach. But for Shobha, Sagar's reemergence casts a shadow over the life she's built for her family. Soon, an unwelcome guest takes up residence in the death hostel, the dying mysteriously continue to live, and Pramesh is forced to confront his own ideas about death, rebirth, and redemption."--Publisher. Awards:  "Winner of the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing."--Cover. Genre:  Literary fiction. First novel. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION CHA Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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