Siddhartha [Paperback]

Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination.The cool and strangely simple story makes a beautiful little book, classic in proportion and style; it should be read slowly and with savor, preferably during the lonely hours of the night.In Siddhartha the setting is Indian and we encounter the Buddha, but the authors ethos is still closer to Goethe.One could even hope that Hesses readers are hungrily imbibing Siddhartha, and that they will be so wisely foolish as to live by it.Hermann Hesse is the greatest writer of the century.A bookrare in our arid agethat takes root in the heart and grows there for a lifetime.