Better to have gone : love, death and the quest for utopia in Auroville
Kapur, Akash2022
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The quest to build utopia has a long history; in the 1960s, hopes surged as seekers from around the planet founded communities that they hoped would provide alternatives for a strife-torn world. One such community was Auroville, located on a weather-beaten landscape of hard clay and palm trees in coastal South India. Akash Kapur's book is about what happened when a beautiful young rebel from Belgium, Diane Maes, and a scion from a powerful American family, John Walker, met in Auroville: how they became drawn into the community's tumultuous history, and why they died - shockingly, tragically - on the same day. Founded in 1968 by a French woman known as 'The Mother', Auroville is an aspiring spiritual utopia seeking to reinvent money, government, education and ecology. Now home to 3,000 residents, it is one of the longest-lasting and largest intentional communities in the world.
Main title:
Author:
Kapur, Akash, author
Imprint:
London : Scribner UK, 2022.
Collation:
368 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781398506770 (pbk)
Dewey class:
954.82
LC class:
DS486
Language:
English
BRN:
3109782