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Better To Have Gone - Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville (Hardcover)
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Better To Have Gone - Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville (Hardcover)
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'Beautifully written and structured, deeply moving, and realised in
wise, thoughtful, chiselled prose... it is that rarity: a genuine
non-fiction classic' William Dalrymple 'A troubling and moving
account of lives gone wrong in the search for an eastern Utopia'
Damon Galgut, author of the Booker Prize-winning The Promise 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 re-establish
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 under-explored 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.
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