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02985aam a2200385Mi 4500 001 A7DA20C67E4911EB8F0EA1F55EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210306010037 008 200217s2021 nyu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781632062529 020 $a 1632062526 035 $a (OCoLC)1140779731 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d NZAUC $d JAS $d IOU $d SILO 100 1 $a Champaneri, Priyanka, $e author. 245 14 $a The city of good death : $b a novel / $c Priyanka Champaneri. 250 $a First Restless Books hardcover edition. 264 1 $a Brooklyn, New York : $b Restless Books, $c 2021. 300 $a xii, 433 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. 520 $a "Banaras, Varanasi, Kashi: India's holy city on the banks of the Ganges has many names but holds one ultimate promise for Hindus. It is the place where pilgrims come for a good death, to be released from the cycle of reincarnation by purifying fire. As the dutiful manager of a death hostel in Kashi, Pramesh welcomes the dying and assists families bound for the funeral pyres that burn constantly on the ghats. The soul is gone, the body is burnt, the time is past, he tells them. Detach. After ten years in the timeless city, Pramesh can nearly persuade himself that here, there is no past or future. He lives contentedly at the death hostel with his wife, Shobha, their young daughter, Rani, the hostel priests, his hapless but willing assistant, and the constant flow of families with their dying kin. But one day the past arrives in the lifeless form of a man pulled from the river - a man with an uncanny resemblance to Pramesh. Called "twins" in their childhood village, he and his cousin Sagar are inseparable until Pramesh leaves to see the outside world and Sagar stays to tend the land. After Pramesh marries Shobha, defying his family's wishes, a rift opens up between the cousins that he has long since tried to forget. Do not look back. Detach. But for Shobha, Sagar's reemergence casts a shadow over the life she's built for her family. Soon, an unwelcome guest takes up residence in the death hostel, the dying mysteriously continue to live, and Pramesh is forced to confront his own ideas about death, rebirth, and redemption."--Publisher. 650 0 $a Hospices (Terminal care) $z VaÌraÌnasi (Uttar Pradesh) $z VaÌraÌnasi (Uttar Pradesh) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Older people $z India $x Death $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Hinduism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Death $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Reincarnation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Cousins $x Death $v Fiction. 651 0 $a VaÌraÌnasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) $v Fiction. 941 $a 4 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023132.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909063303.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210602011612.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210306010359.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A7DA20C67E4911EB8F0EA1F55EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search