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Hermann Hesse’s Siddartha tells the story of a young man’s search for spiritual enlightenment. In it, Siddartha casts off his wealthy existence for a life of contemplation and ascetism after meeting with the Buddha. Later, restless, he abandons this too in favour of the temptations of life with a beautiful courtesan. Ultimately it will be as a simple ferryman that he finds true enlightenment. This is another another deceptively simple book that, like The Alchemist, draws from Eastern and Western philosophical traditions to create a story that is at once timeless and yet distilled from the period in which it was written. The Penguin Modern Classics edition features a foreword by Coelho himself.
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