From
the best-selling author of "Ganesha Goes to Lunch" and
"Rumi's Tales from the Silk Road" comes an original novel
about the life and travels of Guru Nanak, a musician, enlightened
thinker, and one of the most beloved figures in eastern
spirituality.
In
this fascinating book, Kamla K. Kapur weaves together facts, legends,
folktales, myths, and over forty of Guru Nanak's poems--preserved in
the Sikh holy book, the Granth Sahib--to form this captivating
depiction of the leader's life. From being seduced by deadly women to
almost getting eaten by cannibals, the exciting account presented in
The Singing Guru includes moral tales without being proselytizing.
Factual details are intermingled with fantasy to produce a symbolic
portrait in which humor and imagination combine to convey a profound
and entertaining spiritual narrative.
"Kamla
Kapur has created a Sikh parallel of Homer's Odyssey in the
re-imagining of its founder's spiritual journey, cleverly recounted
in the voice of an impish acolyte. As with that work, the prose melts
into melifluous poetry, music to the soul. In company with the Sikh
spiritual leader, Guru Nanak, we travel from magical place to magical
place throughout India and are reminded again and again of what
values should inform our life. You wait until the saga is over to
exhale and still wish there were more. A ripping read."
—Thomas
Hoover, author of Zen Culture and The Moghul
The book can be purchased on Amazon
