Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville Kapur Akash
Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville Kapur Akash *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Statesman, Air Mail, and more *…
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Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville Kapur Akash
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Statesman, Air Mail, and more * Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize * Recipient of a Whiting Grant*A "haunting and elegant" (The Wall Street Journal) story about love, faith, the search for utopia--and the often devastating cost of idealism.It's the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East Coast American family.
Their faith is strong, the future bright.So how do John and Diane end up dying two decades later, on the same day, on a cracked concrete floor in a thatch hut by a remote canyon? They have come to build a new world--Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. This is the