Books like The Pilgrim Kamanita
In ancient India, the merchant's son Kamanita tells a wandering monk the story of his love for a courtesan, not knowing the monk is the Buddha, and his journey continues beyond death.
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Siddhartha
A young Brahmin leaves home to seek enlightenment, passing through wealth, love, and despair before finding wisdom by a river.
The Sibyl
A man cursed by God to wander since he refused to let a condemned man rest at his door climbs to the hut above Delphi where an old woman, once the god's Pythia, lives in disgrace with her son.
Journey to the East
H. H., a musician, recalls his part in a secret League's pilgrimage to the East, a journey across time and imagination that fell apart when the humble servant Leo vanished.
Deep River
Four Japanese travellers with separate wounds arrive at Varanasi on a tourist itinerary, and Endo tracks what the Ganges does to each of their unlikely faiths.
Gora
In 1880s Calcutta, Gora, a fiery young champion of orthodox Hindu nationalism, argues his way through friendships, love and politics, not knowing the truth about his own birth.
Gitanjali
Song offerings of devotion, nature and the infinite, the collection that won Tagore the 1913 Nobel Prize and introduced his work to readers in the West.
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Eighteen stories by the father of the Japanese short story, among them a servant sheltering from the rain in a ruined city gate and conflicting testimony about a killing in a grove.
Kim
Kimball O'Hara, an Irish orphan running wild in the streets of Lahore, becomes the disciple of a Tibetan lama searching for a sacred river, and is drawn into the Great Game of British spying.
The Idiot
Prince Myshkin, a gentle epileptic returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, is drawn into the passions of a society he cannot read, caught between the beautiful, damaged Nastasya Filippovna and the proud Aglaya Yepanchin.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Eddie, an eighty-three-year-old maintenance man at a seaside amusement park, dies trying to save a little girl from a falling cart, and wakes in an afterlife where five people from his life, some of them strangers, explain what it meant.
The Essential Rumi
Coleman Barks's versions of the thirteenth-century Sufi poet, poems of divine love, longing and the dissolving of the self in the beloved.
The Alchemist
An Andalusian shepherd boy travels from Spain to the Egyptian pyramids following a recurring dream, learning that the treasure he seeks was always within reach.