The Root and the Flower (1935)

by L. H. Myers

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The Near and the Far: Containing The Root and the Flower & The Pool of Vishnu by L. H. Myers

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The Pool of Vishnu by L. H. Myers

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The Root and the Flower

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1935

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction, 1935)

Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Anglais (1936)

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Little Prince Jali stepped on to the balcony and looked down upon the plain in awe.

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Set in the war-torn world of Mughal India and first published in the gathering darkness of the 1930s, the three novels collected in The Root and the Flower are stories of intrigue, murder, and romance; of Tantric abandonment and Buddhist renunciation; of emotional delirium and spiritual adventure. This enthralling visionary trilogy is, as Penelope Fitzgerald remarks in her introduction, a "strange masterpiece," and one of the unsung glories of modern literature.

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