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Blue-skinned gods
- Title
- Blue-skinned gods / SJ Sindu.
- Author
- Sindu, SJ
- Publication
- New York, NY : Soho Press Inc., [2021]
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-928 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 329 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child's blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. Kalki is confronted with three trials in his tenth year-tests of his power that will prove his divine status and, his father tells him, spread his fame worldwide. Over the next decade, as the story of his family unravels, his relationship to everyone--his dominating father, his beloved cousin, his cancer-stricken aunt, and the young woman he imagines he will marry--threatens to fall apart. At once a personal tale of youthful searching, and a magisterial, continent spanning tour-de-force, Blue-Skinned Gods is unwaveringly honest and heartbreaking, a powerful novel told through the eyes of a wonderfully winning and idiosyncratic protagonist"--
- Subject
- Avatars (Religion) > Fiction
- Hindu gods > Fiction
- Kalki (Hindu deity) > Fiction
- Ashrams > Fiction
- Boys > Fiction
- Fathers and sons > Fiction
- Exploitation > Fiction
- Families > India > Fiction
- Hinduism > Fiction
- FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical
- FICTION / Religious
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General
- Avatars (Religion)
- Hindu gods
- Kalki (Hindu deity)
- Ashrams
- Boys
- Fathers and sons
- Exploitation
- Families
- Hinduism
- India > Religious life and customs > Fiction
- Tamil Nadu (India) > Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) > Fiction
- India
- India > Tamil Nadu
- New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-928
- ISBN
- 9781641292429
- 1641292423
- LCCN
- 2021000874
- OCLC
- 1201179515
- Author
- Sindu, SJ, author.
- Title
- Blue-skinned gods / SJ Sindu.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Soho Press Inc., [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-928