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PublisherOneworld Publications

ISBN-101851689591

ISBN-139781851689590

eBay Product ID (ePID)159943481

Product Key Features

Original LanguageFrench

Book TitleThis Flawless Place between

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

TopicGeneral, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorBruno Portier

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsExtraordinary and compelling." New Internationalist This inspiring novel will quench anyone's thirst for knowledge and spirituality." Psychologies Magazine "Provocative, emotional, and strangely comforting. Highly recommended." Publishers Weekly "Engagingly beautiful" Bookbag, The novel is fast-paced, highly descriptive and, at times, almost poetic in vivid elaboration... we can all benefit from the message., "Extraordinary and compelling." New Internationalist "This inspiring novel will quench anyone's thirst for knowledge and spirituality." Psychologies Magazine "Provocative, emotional, and strangely comforting. Highly recommended." Publishers Weekly "Engagingly beautiful" Bookbag

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823.92

SynopsisHurtling over the edge of the precipice, Anne embraces the moment, relishing the cool air streaming through her hair, the setting sun's shimmering light, the freedom of release from the earth before gravity comes back to claim her. She takes the time to enjoy it. It will be over soon. For all those who loved The Alchemist , Siddhartha , and Jonathan Livingston Seagull , This Flawless Place Between is a mesmerising and uplifting story about death and dying. Interweaving the key themes of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, one of the world's most influential and treasured spiritual texts, Portier gently explores our deepest questions about life, love, and death with a refreshing openness and delicacy. Anne and Evan are vacationing in the Tibetan mountains when on an isolated stretch of road they lose control of their motorbike. Bike and riders spin over the edge, plunging into a ravine. Evan's leg is broken; Anne isn't moving. A Tibetan peasant hurries to help them, but while Evan tries in vain to save Anne's life, the stranger focuses on guiding her spirit along the new path it must take to the next one. So begins a cathartic voyage that carries Anne away from her broken body and back through the traumas and ecstasies of her life. Once again, she is a child mourning a dead pet, a young woman embracing her lover, the radiant hostess of an art exhibition, a distraught mother hearing that her young daughter has been critically injured. As she revisits her past, and the futures of those she will leave behind, Anne begins to accept not only her death but also her life - and that what happens next will be up to her., Interweaving themes from The Tibetan Book of the Dead, This Flawless Place Between is a spellbinding reimagining of one of the world's most influential and treasured spiritual texts A spell-binding reimagining of The Tibetan Book of the Dead - one of the world's most influential and treasured spiritual texts - This Flawless Place Between explores our deepest questions about life, love, and death Anne and Evan are on the holiday they've always dreamed of, travelling deep into Tibet, when a dreadful accident sends them down a wholly different path. What happens next is a story of acceptance, a cathartic journey where minds are opened to the possibility that the life we know is not the only one, and death is not the only end. Evoking inspirational classics such as The Alchemist and Jonathan Livingston Seagull , This Flawless Place Between is storytelling at its most uplifting and enriching, weaving a tale that will transform the way we see this world and our place in it., A spell-binding reimagining of The Tibetan Book of the Dead - one of the world's most influential and treasured spiritual texts - This Flawless Place Between explores our deepest questions about life, love, and death Anne and Evan are on the holiday they've always dreamed of, travelling deep into Tibet, when a dreadful accident sends them down a wholly different path. What happens next is a story of acceptance, a cathartic journey where minds are opened to the possibility that the life we know is not the only one, and death is not the only end. Evoking inspirational classics such as The Alchemist and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, This Flawless Place Between is storytelling at its most uplifting and enriching, weaving a tale that will transform the way we see this world and our place in it., Evocative of The Alchemist, This Flawless Place Between is a spellbinding reimagining of one of the world's most influential and treasured spiritual texts

LC Classification NumberPR6116