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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Kapur, Akash.     Subjects     Maes, Diane, 1950-1986.     Walker, John, 1942-1986.     Utopias -- India.     Auroville (India) -- History.     Auroville (India) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kapur, Akash.       by title:      Better to have gone ...       by call number:      954.82 K17b     Search the Web     Kapur, Akash.     Maes, Diane, 1950-1986.     Walker, John, 1942-1986.     Utopias -- India.     Auroville (India) -- History.     Auroville (India) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Better to have gone : love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville / Akash Kapur. by Kapur, Akash. Scribner, 2021. Call #: 954.82 K17b Subjects Maes, Diane, 1950-1986.   Walker, John, 1942-1986.   Utopias -- India.   Auroville (India) -- History.   Auroville (India) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781501132513 (hc) Edition:  1st Scribner hardcover ed. Description:  xiv, 344 p. : ill., portraits ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "A spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia -- and the often devastating cost of idealism. It's the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world -- Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. Their faith is strong, the future bright. So how do John and Diane end up dying two decades later, on the same day, on a cracked concrete floor in a thatch hut by a remote canyon? This is the mystery Akash Kapur sets out to solve in Better to Have Gone, and it carries deep personal resonance: Diane and John were the parents of Akash's wife, Auralice. Akash and Auralice grew up in Auroville; like the rest of their community, they never really understood those deaths. In 2004, Akash and Auralice return to Auroville from New York, where they have been living with John's family. As they reestablish themselves, along with their two sons, in the community, they must confront the ghosts of those distant deaths. Slowly, they come to understand how the tragic individual fates of John and Diane intersected with the collective history of their town. Better to Have Gone is a book about the human cost of our age-old quest for a more perfect world. It probes the underexplored yet universal idea of utopia, and it portrays in vivid detail the daily life of one utopian community. Richly atmospheric and filled with remarkable characters, spread across time and continents, this is narrative writing of the highest order -- a heartbreaking, unforgettable story."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 954.82 K17b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 954.82 K17b Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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