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Better to Have Gone audiobook
- By: Akash Kapur
- Narrator: Vikas Adam
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
- Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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Better to Have Gone Audiobook Summary
*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. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world–Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. 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? This is the mystery Akash Kapur sets out to solve in Better to Have Gone, and it carries deep personal resonance: Diane and John were the parents of Akash’s wife, Auralice. Akash and Auralice grew up in Auroville; like the rest of their community, they never really understood those deaths.
In 2004, Akash and Auralice return to Auroville from New York, where they have been living with John’s family. As they reestablish themselves in the community, along with their two sons, they must confront the ghosts of those distant deaths. Slowly, they come to understand how the tragic individual fates of John and Diane intersected with the collective history of their town.
“A riveting account of human aspiration and folly taken to extremes” (The Boston Globe), Better to Have Gone probes the underexplored yet universal idea of utopia and portrays in vivid detail the daily life of one such community. Richly atmospheric and filled with remarkable characters, spread across time and continents, this is narrative writing of the highest order–a “gripping…compelling…[and] heartbreaking story, deeply researched and lucidly told” (The New York Times Book Review).
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Better to Have Gone Audiobook Narrator
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About the Author(s) of Better to Have Gone
Akash Kapur is the author of Better to Have Gone
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Better to Have Gone Full Details
| Narrator | Vikas Adam |
| Length | 12 hours 38 minutes |
| Author | Akash Kapur |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 24, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781797127712 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Better to Have Gone is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
Additional info
The publisher of the Better to Have Gone is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781797127712.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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