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Very good in very good dust jacket. Clean and unmarked. Gently used, if read at all. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 256 p. Audience: General/trade.
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No Jacket. Woodstock. 2000. Overlook Press. Uncorrected Proofs. Very Good in Wrappers. 1585670073. 1st Novel. 301 pages. paperback. keywords: Asia India Literature Kama Sutra World Literature. DESCRIPTION-The Kama Sutra is the most widely read treatise on sex ever written, though the man who chronicled all there was to experience between men and women remains, for the most part, a mystery. In The Ascetic of Desire, called 'A literary achievement of the highest order, ' by The Times (India), acclaimed author Suhir Kakar tells the story of the man who is believed to be the author of the Kama Sutra, Vatsyayana, and the time in which he lived-the fourth century A.D., considered the golden age of Indian history-in a sensual and psychologically penetrating first novel. In 'The Ascetic of Desire, ' the elusive sage Vatsyayana recounts his youth to a young pupil, the son of a Brahmin scholar, who is embarking on his first exploration of the sensual life. The young man, planning to write Vatsyayana's biography, listens dutifully as Vatsyayana shares stories of a childhood spent largely in the brother where his favorite aunt worked. There, Vatsyayana gained his first, indelible impressions of sexual artifice and the arousal of desire. As Vatsyayana's story unfolds, the story of a young man's coming of age, the pupil finds, to his consternation, that his own life has begun to reflect and parallel the ascetic's narrative. At the point where their stories intersect, the unexpected happens. Weaving a powerful narrative together with erotic wisdom from the Kama Sutra, The Ascetic of Desire plumbs the depths of kinds, queens and sages at various stages of discovering their sexual identities. inventory #27394.
