Siddhartha An Indian Tale (Pocket Classic)
Part of the Fingerprint! Pocket Classics range, this compact edition keeps the original text fully intact while fitting neatly into a bag or back pocket. It's attractively priced, makes a thoughtful gift, and the vibrant cover with flap jacket gives it a charm that feels worthy of any personal collection. At its heart, this is the story of a brahmin's son who refuses to accept inherited wisdom at face value. Restless and searching, he moves through strikingly different lives, each one a kind of experiment. He walks with the Samanas, accumulates wealth as a merchant, loves, loses, becomes a father, and eventually finds himself working the oars of a simple ferry. What's quietly remarkable is how Hesse strips away the expected routes to enlightenment. Siddhartha neither meditates his way to truth nor finds it through devotion or ritual. Instead, he simply becomes present to the world around him, until the river he ferries people across begins to sound less like water and more like an answer. It's a short book, but it carries surprising weight.
- Author: Hermann Hesse
- Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality
- ISBN: 978-9386538208
- Pages: 196 pages