The cauliflower

• Verfasst von: Barker, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The cauliflower
• Verf.angabe: Nicola Barker
• Verlagsort: London
• Verlag: William Heinemann
• Jahr: 2016
• Umfang: 327 Seiten
• Format: 24 cm
• ISBN: 978-1-78515-066-1
• ISBN: 978-1-4735-3590-9
• ISBN: 978-1-78515-065-4
• Schlagwörter: (p)Ramakrishna
• Dokumenttyp: Fiktionale Darstellung
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: HN 9990
• K10plus-PPN: 859169936

Abstract

To the world he is Sri Ramakrishna – godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru. To Rani Rashmoni, he is the Brahmin fated to defy tradition. But to Hriday, his nephew and long-time caretaker, he is just Uncle – maddening, bewildering Uncle, prone to entering trances at the most inconvenient of times, known to perform dangerous acts of self-effacement, who must be vigilantly safeguarded not only against jealous enemies but also against that most treasured yet insidious of sulphur-rich vegetables: the cauliflower. Rather than puzzling the shards of history and legend together, Barker shatters the mirror again and rearranges the pieces. The result is a biographical novel viewed through a kaleidoscope. Dazzlingly inventive and brilliantly comic, irreverent and mischievous, The Cauliflower® delivers us into the divine playfulness of ‘one of the most exhilarating, audacious, and . . . ballsy writers of her generation’ (Observer).