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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
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In ancient India, a young Brahmin leaves the security of home to seek an understanding that inherited teachings cannot give him. His journey moves between renunciation and worldly experience, bringing encounters with spiritual teachers, desire, prosperity, and the quiet presence of a river. Hesse shapes these experiences into an intimate philosophical novel about the difference between receiving wisdom and discovering it through living. Lyrical and contemplative rather than doctrinal, this compact classic follows one searching consciousness through changing identities, asking what remains when achievement, certainty, and the need to become someone begin to fall away. (penguinrandomhouse.com)
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