Only to open your eyes again and start to realise the beauty that is in front of you right now, and appreciate that even more. By integrating magical elements—talking glaciers and yetis appear—Swarup eschews conventional love stories to focus instead on many forms of desire, while zigzagging across time and place. It’s a garrulous, yet almost static movie, and weirdly for a film about narrative there is no single overwhelmingly important storyline. Shubhangi Swarup has penned a brilliant debut, showing the interconnectedness of everything on earth. This book was so very interesting from the very start till the end, couldn't put it down and thought about it a lot when not reading.

Book of Longing Quotes by Leonard Cohen - Goodreads

When she meets the eighteen-year-old Jesus, each is drawn to and enriched by the other’s spiritual and philosophical ideas. But Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her—until an encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. She demonstrates an exceptional aptitude for writing, and Matthias, for a time, indulges her with reed pens, papyri, and other 16 C. Her mother disapproves, but her aunt, Yaltha, mentors Ana in the ways of the enlightened women of Alexandria, from whence Yaltha, suspected of murdering her brutal husband, was exiled years before.and somehow, when leonard cohen does it, it’s not icky, as it would be for many older gentlemen suffused with lust. I personally learnt a lot about the Andaman history, the Karen community, political uprisings in Burma, the colonials and the opium trade!

Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup | Goodreads Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup | Goodreads

It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and the present, and also includes his wonderfully witty and sensuous illustrations, including numerous playful self-portraits. Only a fool would consider the shores of continents, sandbanks and parched patches the ends to the unbroken surface of water.Here, Ana’s pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to the Roman occupation of Israel, partially led by her charismatic adopted brother, Judas. Don't shy away from this historical fiction page-turner thinking that it falls into the inspirational genre. Most of the poems/scribblings concern the time he spent in Monastery, so there is a big dose of "wrestling with God" in here, along with "wrestling with love, sex, things of the flesh".