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Mansions of the moon, a novel, Shyam Selvadurai

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Mansions of the moon, a novel, Shyam Selvadurai

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eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Mansions of the moon

Responsibility statement

Shyam Selvadurai

Sub title

a novel

Summary

In this sweeping tale, at once epic and intimate, Shyam Selvadurai introduces us to Siddhartha Gautama--who will later become "the enlightened one," or the Buddha--an unusually bright and politically astute young man settling into his upper-caste life as a newlywed to Yasodhara, a woman of great intelligence and spirit. Mansions of the Moon traces the couple's early love and life together, and then the anguished turmoil that descends upon them both as Siddhartha's spiritual calling takes over and the marriage partnership slowly, inexorably crumbles. Eventually, Yasodhara is forced to ask what kind of life a woman can lead in ancient India if her husband abandons her--even a well-born woman such as herself. And is there a path she, too, might take towards enlightenment?

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