My family and other saints / / Kirin Narayan

• Autore: Narayan Kirin
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.850954/792092
• Soggetto topico: Women anthropologists - India - Mumbai; Anthropology of religion - India - Mumbai; Families - India - Mumbai; Hinduism and culture - India - Mumbai
• Soggetto geografico: Mumbai (India) Religious life and customs; Mumbai (India) Social life and customs
• Soggetto non controllato: memoir, enlightenment, guru, religion, spirituality, family, brother, siblings, bombay, india, eastern philosophy, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, pilgrimage, ashram, holy men, coming of age, spiritual quest, youth, childhood, adolescence, anthropology, sociology, hinduism, mumbai, seeking, journey, growth, gods, female authors, indian women, gender, sister
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Hook -- 1. Gods' Eyes -- 2. Crazy Saints -- 3. The Seven-Horned Mountain -- 4. Blind Blue Heavens, Pure Blue Light -- 5. Fused Doubles -- 6. Doorways -- 7. Gurus and Urugs -- 8. Mrs. Contractor's Eldest Unmarried Daughter -- 9. Conjunctions -- 10. The Moon Pearl -- 11. At the Border -- 12. Twin Goddess -- The Clasp
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: My family and other saints
• ISBN: 0-226-56815-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818429203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II