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Better to Have Gone
- Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
- By: Akash Kapur
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 47
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.
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Narcissists go hungry in India
- By ET on 07-26-21
- Better to Have Gone
- Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
- By: Akash Kapur
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Intelligent, sensitive well written book
Reviewed: 10-02-21
Very thoughtfully written portrait of a complex couple and community. Fascinating tale of people trying to build a utopia. The author is uniquely vantaged to tell this story and he does it with honesty and insight.
Very well read.
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