Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

by Akash Kapur and Akash Kapur

Book Overview

*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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501132512
• ISBN13: 9781501132513
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"