The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India by Mann, Thomas

The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780394700861)

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The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India by Mann, Thomas

The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India

$15.75
The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India by Mann, Thomas

The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India

$15.75
Format: Paperback
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From a Nobel Prize for Literature winner and one of the most iconic German writers of the 20th century, Transposed Heads is a beautiful story that explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend, Mann's writes about two Indian friends, Shridaman and Nanda, whom together, decide to decapitate themselves. However, they awaken from their attempted suicides to find their heads restored, but to the wrong body. Now, Sita, the wife of Shridaman must determine the true meaning of identity as she navigates her own feelings as to which representation is her actual husband. As the love-triangle carries on, Mann shows just how entwined our mind, body, and spirit are.

"The Transposed Heads is altogether delightful . . . It is certainly the most charming of Mann's works . . . in short, a restatement in parable form of Mann's intransigent faith in the human intellect. It is also a rich and subtle analysis of the psychology of friendship and love."--Sewanee Review

Author: Thomas Mann
ISBN-10: 0394700864
ISBN-13: 9780394700861
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/12/1959
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.27h x 4.36w x 0.39d
By Thomas Mann
By Thomas Mann
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Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was from Germany. At the age of 25, he published his first novel, Buddenbrooks. In 1924, The Magic Mountain was published, and five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948).

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