The Conquest of Kailash
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The Conquest of Kailash

by Inderjeet ManiPublish: May 29, 2024Literary Fiction LGBT

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From the award-winning author of Toxic Spirits comes a new and heartbreaking novel about cruelty and marginalization, and the struggle to find meaning in a world of mounting prejudice and false belief.

Gay but still closeted and missing his wife Helen - who has fled their home to become a Buddhist nun - Ali Akbar retu... rns in old age from California to India. At the Deer Park where the Buddha gave his first sermon, he comes across a flyer that promises to teach him how to find love again. After being assaulted outside the park at a parade led by a religious fundamentalist, Ali attempts to make good on the promise of the flyer, traveling from Benares up towards the icy heights of Mount Kailash.

Along the way, Ali is forced to come to terms with the relentless sexual abuse he suffered in childhood in India, as well as his personal failures, including his expulsion from Cambridge University, his failed career hopes, and most of all, his relationships with Helen and their daughter Homa. Navigating between competing fundamentalisms that mark a time of social collapse, Ali tries, in the time that he
has left, to seize that last chance to find love again -- even if it takes a very different form from what he expected.

Steeped in the philosophies of classical Greece and India, and layered with colorful travelogues in India, England, and the US, The Conquest of Kailash is written in Mani's
characteristically atmospheric and humane style that has attracted readers worldwide. read more

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BIOGRAPHY
Inderjeet Mani is an Indian-born former US professor and scientist now based mainly in Thailand. His first novel Toxic Spirits (now in its second edition) is based on his experiences volunteering with hill-tribes in Thailand’s Golden Triangle. In addition to his new novel The Conquest of Kailash, Mani has also publis... hed six other books and nearly fifty shorter literary pieces published in literary magazines and anthologies as well as newspapers, along with a
hundred-odd scientific papers. Mani’s scholarly books include The Imagined Moment, on the computing of time in narrative, and other titles are from Oxford and MIT Press. His awards include the (WIND Magazine) Short Fiction award, (Story South) Million Writers Award Notable Stories, Reader’s Choice Award, (Glimmer Train) Very Short Fiction Award, (The Common Room) Story of the Month, and a finalist for the Pan Literary Award and for the
(Nimrod) Katherine Anne Porter Prize. read more

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Book Detail
Title The Conquest of Kailash
Author Inderjeet Mani
Publish Date 29, May 2024
Publisher Ukiyoto Publishing
Language English
Page Count 306
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