Overview
An extended fable. The central theme of this book, of how to live decently and honourably in a cruel and irrational world, is explored through concepts of sainthood, love, and the anticipation of death.
Once she had reconciled herself to the view that a garden snake, however beautiful, was not evil, Suniti decided to set about the matter in a more businesslike way. She put an ad in the paper: ‘Elderly gentlewoman seeks to make a bargain with the devil’. Where are good and evil to be found? What is the path to sainthood? Is it through poetry or good deeds? St Suniti talks to angels and flowers, dragons, saints and ordinary people in her quest. Suniti Namjoshi has original imagination full of surprises encompassing saints and wolves, Beowulf and Bangladesh, Grendel and Star Trek.‘It’s hilarious, witty, elegantly written, hugely inventive, fantastic, energetic, up to the minute, analytic, touching…
- | Author: Suniti Namjoshi
- | Publisher: Spinifex Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 01, 1993
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781875559183
- | ISBN-10: 1875559183