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Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

byAkash Kapur

In Better to Have Gone, Akash Kapur presents a biographical portrait centered on love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville. Its account follows central actors and turning points while showing how the story reflects questions in the connected fields of biography & autobiography and religion. Rather than isolating its subject, the book shows how private experience and public systems continually influenced one another. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention.

Publisher

Scribner

Publication date

Jul 20, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

368

ISBN

9781501132513