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From Whiting Award winner Akash Kapur, a transfixing and deeply researched masterwork that blends the investigation into an unsolved family mystery with a fascinating portrait of Auroville-a Utopian community on the coast of southern India.
As a young boy, Akash Kapur moved with his family to Auroville, off the Bay of Bengal in India. Founded in 1968 by a French woman known as "The Mother," the town is a spiritual utopia, with no money, no government,...
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"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,...
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