Working as a midwife and medic amongst the servant people in her community near Kanpur, in Northern India, Carolyn North witnessed life at its most exposed - birthing and dying - and at its most sublime - all-night concerts of North Indian flute ragas.
In this book she combines the two to present a metaphor of all life in the world, in both its earthly and ecstatically spiritual aspects.
In this novel of life, death and birth in a servant family, and an all-night concert on the banks of the Ganges River, the reader is immersed in the heat and squalor of India, in its extraordinary music and above all, in the Hindu world view in which death and life are but part of the same miraculous Whole.
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