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Siddhartha

Author
Hermann Hesse
Language
German
Length
116 pages
ISBN
9781787362086
Published
4 December 2020
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Hermann Hesse
  • Siddhartha
  • spirituality
  • empowerment
  • spiritual growth
  • meaning of life
  • Buddha
  • Buddhism
  • Hindu
  • coming of age

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Description

Siddhartha grows by the river, a Brahmin’s son with Govinda, ablutions, mango shade — then he leaves. Hesse’s novel is a life tried in stages: ascetic, merchant, ferryman, the water as teacher. Urban Romantics ebook. Not a pamphlet of Eastern costume. A German book of becoming, desire, and the river that keeps saying the same word differently. Gotama passed on the road; Kamala in the town; Vasudeva at the oar. A spiritual novel that still has a body, a friendship, and a crossing.

Author

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) was a German-Swiss poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. His books explore the inward journey — the search for authenticity, spiritual balance, and self-knowledge beyond social convention. Siddhartha, Demian, and Steppenwolf made him a guiding voice for generations of readers across Europe and America. Hesse writes with lyrical simplicity about the hardest question: how to become oneself.

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