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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 A Beginner's Guide to Dying in India
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'A Beginner's Guide to Dying in India is a spiritual journey across the continents of the soul. Commencing in Australia and traversing toward the climactic scene in the snowy mountains of Northern India, this novel crosses exotic external and internal terrains with humour, sharp wit and a resonance that expands with each chapter. While confronted with mounting grief and loss in Australia, Levi is suddenly called to India by his brother and delves, though somewhat reluctantly, into the shifting sands of his own spirituality. In fulfilling his dying brother's wishes, Levi embarks on a path intersecting with adventure, new found friends, a treasure trove of riches (and not just the material kind.' Source: /www.ipoz.biz/ (Sighted 07/12/2009).

Notes

  • Dedication: For my brother Trent. Hopefully this will make up for those birthdays I missed.
  • Epigraph: The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust
  • Epigraph: This soul within my heart is smaller than a grain of rice, or in a mustard seed, or a kernel of millet. This soul within my heart is greater than the earth, the air, the sky and all the worlds. This is my soul within my heart. This is the All. And when I die, I shall merge into it. -Traditional Hindu funeral prayer

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carindale, Camp Hill - Carina area, Brisbane - South East, Brisbane, Queensland,: Interactive Publications , 2009 .
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      Extent: 245p.
      Note/s:
      • Published October 25th 2009 
      ISBN: 9781921479304

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Works about this Work

A Mixture of Comedy, Drama and Tragedy James Chalmers , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Westside News , 25 November 2009; (p. 9)

— Review of A Beginner's Guide to Dying in India J. M. Donellan , 2009 single work novel
A Mixture of Comedy, Drama and Tragedy James Chalmers , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Westside News , 25 November 2009; (p. 9)

— Review of A Beginner's Guide to Dying in India J. M. Donellan , 2009 single work novel
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