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Studying abroad after World War II, Ramaswamy, a Brahmin from Mysore, India, falls in love with Madeleine, a young French woman
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1 author picked The Serpent and the Rope as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I first read this philosophical novel when I was nineteen, and find it is one of the rare books I return to again and again. Dag Hammarskjold, a former Secretary General of the United Nations., carried two books with him always: The Bible and The Serpent and the Rope. Raja Rao was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature and received many other awards. This novel is for anyone with a search for Truth.
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