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Adorned with the jewels of Eastern philosophy and eloquent Sanskrit, one woman's story of her quest for life's meaning unfolds like a poetic story without a script. Her lyrical prose charts a journey from youthful hope to the possibility of wisdom- and even transcendence... Kavita is a novella, a word, a mood, a concept that stems from the Italian Renaissance period. A novella is short, uncomplicated, with no sub-plots, and often intended to be read in one sitting. It explains little, but takes the reader by the hand through a brief story more concerned with personal and emotional development than with any bigger picture or grand-scheme depths. It lounges, too, in more luxuriant descriptions than are found in their big sisters: short stories and small books. Kavita is a Sanskrit word meaning "poetry," and this novella is a story that unfolds through often raw, personal poems, into the world the author now inhabits and which sings to her in poetic beauty daily.
Adorned with the jewels of Eastern philosophy and eloquent Sanskrit, one woman's story of her quest for life's meaning unfolds like a poetic story without a script. Her lyrical prose charts a journey from youthful hope to the possibility of wisdom- and even transcendence... Kavita is a novella, a word, a mood, a concept that stems from the Italian Renaissance period. A novella is short, uncomplicated, with no sub-plots, and often intended to be read in one sitting. It explains little, but takes the reader by the hand through a brief story more concerned with personal and emotional development than with any bigger picture or grand-scheme depths. It lounges, too, in more luxuriant descriptions than are found in their big sisters: short stories and small books. Kavita is a Sanskrit word meaning "poetry," and this novella is a story that unfolds through often raw, personal poems, into the world the author now inhabits and which sings to her in poetic beauty daily.
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