The Yoga of Max's Discontent
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Max Pzoras, the child of immigrants, triumphed over his upbringing and became a successful Wall Street analyst. But when he's involved in a violent street scuffle, Max confronts questions about mortality that have dogged him since his mother's death. In...
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Max Pzoras, the child of immigrants, triumphed over his upbringing and became a successful Wall Street analyst. But when he's involved in a violent street scuffle, Max confronts questions about mortality that have dogged him since his mother's death. In this captivating novel of spiritual discovery, a young man travels to India and finds himself tested physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
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A beautifully rendered epic journey . . . . The novel works on many levels and excels at them all. New York Journal of BooksIn this captivating and surprising novel of spiritual discovery a No. 1 bestseller in India a young American travels to India and finds himself tested physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Max Pzoras is the poster child for the American Dream. The child of Greek immigrants who grew up in a dangerous New York housing project, he triumphed over his upbringing and became a successful Wall Street analyst. Yet on the frigid December night he s involved in a violent street scuffle, Max begins to confront questions about suffering and mortality that have dogged him since his mother s death.
His search takes him to the farthest reaches of India, where he encounters a mysterious night market, almost freezes to death on a hike up the Himalayas, and finds himself in an ashram in a drought-stricken village in South India. As Max seeks answers to questions that have bedeviled him can yogis walk on water and live for 200 years without aging? Can a flesh-and-blood man ever achieve nirvana? he struggles to overcome his skepticism and the pull of family tugging him home. In an ultimate bid for answers, he embarks on a dangerous solitary meditation in a freezing Himalayan cave, where his physical and spiritual endurance is put to its most extreme test.
By turns a gripping adventure story and a journey of tremendous inner transformation, The Yoga of Max's Discontent is a contemporary take on man's classic quest for transcendence.
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***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof***Copyright © 2016 Karan Bajaj
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Max s mother died the next day, finally free from the kidney cancer that had spread to her uterus, bladder, liver, bones, and lungs over the past three years. A week later, Max and Sophia held her memorial service at the St. Ann s Episcopal Church. They briefly considered holding the service in the St. George St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Spanish Harlem, but his mother hadn t identified with the Orthodox faith, just as she hadn t fasted at Lent or sought any Greek family in the United States. Talking of past is like two birds sitting and knitting sweater. Fool s daydreams. You think only of future, she had said in her halting English whenever Max and Sophia asked her too many questions about her childhood. Not that it mattered. Orthodox or Episcopal, everyone ended in some spot under the earth. At least she had died a natural death. A life not cut short by a shooting or an overdose was a minor blessing in the projects.
On his way back from the Columbus Circle subway station after her memorial service that evening, Max saw the Indian food cart guy from a week before standing on a small stool in front of the open-air cart, still naked from the waist up. He was scraping snow from the cart s tin roof, a look of complete absorption on his face. Max hesitated, then removed his overcoat and walked up to the cart, shivering in his sweater.
The man saw Max and smiled. From the other night, yes? he said, getting off the stool.
Max nodded. I came to give you this. Max handed him the overcoat. It s very cold here.
The man laughed and his eyes lit up. Thank you for caring, sir, but I am not in need of a coat.
Please. Just a small gift from my sister and me. It s not safe to be like that in the winters in New York.
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Indeed, sir, that is very considerate, but I am very fine in deed, he said. Please believe me when I say I can buy a coat for myself. I have been in America for one whole month, but I have not felt cold here. It is much colder where I come from.
Max put his coat back on and huddled closer to the warm cart. I didn t know it was that cold in India, he said. I mean, you are from India, aren t you?
The man nodded. He pulled a mug of water from the metal tank under the grill surface and washed the grill.
India is a big country, sir. I am from the mountains, up, very far up in the Himalayas beyond Kashmir, where people rarely visit, he said. He splattered oil on the grill. Will you have some thing to eat, sir?
Eight PM. Max was restarting work the next day after a week off, and he hadn t slept well for several nights. But he felt like talking to someone who didn t know of his mother s death and wouldn t offer unwanted condolences and homilies.
A falafel gyro, said Max, stooping and moving closer to the cramped, warm cart interior.
Sit, sit, sir, said the man. He wiped the stool outside the cart with a dry white cloth. You are tall for my small cart, sir.
Max sat on the stool. I m tall for every cart, he said. And please don t call me sir, I m Max. Max Pzoras.
He smiled. Indeed, he said. My name is Viveka.
VIVEKA TOOK FALAFEL from one of the stainless steel containers on the shelf and put it on the grill. The falafel sizzled. Just inhaling the hot metal smell made Max shiver less. Viveka broke the falafel gently with his tongs, snowflakes falling on his naked back.
Max shook his f
Indeed, sir, that is very considerate, but I am very fine in deed, he said. Please believe me when I say I can buy a coat for myself. I have been in America for one whole month, but I have not felt cold here. It is much colder where I come from.
Max put his coat back on and huddled closer to the warm cart. I didn t know it was that cold in India, he said. I mean, you are from India, aren t you?
The man nodded. He pulled a mug of water from the metal tank under the grill surface and washed the grill.
India is a big country, sir. I am from the mountains, up, very far up in the Himalayas beyond Kashmir, where people rarely visit, he said. He splattered oil on the grill. Will you have some thing to eat, sir?
Eight PM. Max was restarting work the next day after a week off, and he hadn t slept well for several nights. But he felt like talking to someone who didn t know of his mother s death and wouldn t offer unwanted condolences and homilies.
A falafel gyro, said Max, stooping and moving closer to the cramped, warm cart interior.
Sit, sit, sir, said the man. He wiped the stool outside the cart with a dry white cloth. You are tall for my small cart, sir.
Max sat on the stool. I m tall for every cart, he said. And please don t call me sir, I m Max. Max Pzoras.
He smiled. Indeed, he said. My name is Viveka.
VIVEKA TOOK FALAFEL from one of the stainless steel containers on the shelf and put it on the grill. The falafel sizzled. Just inhaling the hot metal smell made Max shiver less. Viveka broke the falafel gently with his tongs, snowflakes falling on his naked back.
Max shook his f
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Autoren-Porträt von Karan Bajaj
Karan Bajaj is a bestselling novelist and striving yogi. Born and raised in India, he has trained as a Hatha Yoga teacher in the Sivananda ashram in South India and learned meditation in the Himalayas. He is the author of the novels Johnny Gone Down and Keep off the Grass, both of which were No. 1 bestsellers in India. He s been named one of India Today s Top 35 Under 35. He lives in New York City.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Karan Bajaj
- 2017, 336 Seiten, Masse: 13 x 20,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Riverhead Books
- ISBN-10: 0735213453
- ISBN-13: 9780735213456
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.04.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Upon finishing this novel, you will likely find yourself asking the big questions. You may also find yourself selling your possessions, dusting off your passport, quitting your job, and buying a one-way ticket to the end of the earth. Karan Bajaj has written a compelling adventure, with vivid settings, meaty themes, and a satisfying conclusion. Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of CaregivingTo the world, Max Pzoras is a winner driven and successful. But the outward trappings of success can no longer hide his lack of inner grace. Max knows it, so he goes in search of his true purpose in India, where secrets are revealed and awe awaits. In elegant prose, with an energy that sustains and inspires, Karan Bajaj has written a novel to treasure. The characters and story he spins will leave you breathless, along with the knowledge that the spiritual journey of a lifetime begins with a single question. Adriana Trigiani, New York Times-bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife
Karan Bajaj weaves a modern day epic you simply will not forget. He writes clean, simple prose that zips so fast you'll forget you're reading. He transcends his outlet and sends his creative heart directly into yours. Incredible. Neil Pasricha, New York Times-bestselling author of The Happiness Equation and The Book of Awesome
A beautifully rendered epic journey Transcendent yet readable, spiritual yet wildly and deliberately accessible, the novel works on many levels and excels at them all. New York Journal of Books
From the snows of the Himalayas to the droughts of southern India, as varied as the subcontinent s locations are its characters, including freewheeling young bikers and ageless yogis whose silences last for decades. Bajaj guides the reader along on a pleasurable journey. Publishers Weekly
Riveting Beautifully written, powerful in its deliverance and giving in its
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message, The Yoga of Max s Discontent is one book that deserves to be read. Fiction Foresight
Remarkable. Siddhartha changed my life but The Yoga of Max s Discontent is something more than Hesse. It is a novel profoundly relevant to our times, to a generation that is more concerned and attuned to moral and spiritual values than previous generations. Impakter Magazine
In a literary market flooded with shallow yogic adventure stories both fact and fiction that promise little more than sensationalism or entertainment, here comes an important, authentic, believable, riveting account on the level of Hermann Hesse or Victor Frankl. This is a superbly written meditation on effort and grace, a do-or-die quest for spiritual transformation, a journey from darkness to light, and a psychological thriller, which strips away artifice in a relentless quest to discover meaning and shows us how the lotus can rise from the muck of a Bronx sewer to blossom calmly in the cool Himalayan moonlight. Sharon Gannon, co-author of Jivamukti Yoga
Filled with adventure and excitement. A quest for answers that bother all of us at some level. Times of India
An instant bestseller. One man s epic quest to merge with the universal oneness. India Today
A special story. Engaging, convincing, and highly readable. Keeps the readers engrossed till the very last page. The Statesman
Shortlisted for the Golden Quill Award
Shortlisted for the Teacher's Achievement Award
Shortlisted for the Crossword Book Pick of the Year
Remarkable. Siddhartha changed my life but The Yoga of Max s Discontent is something more than Hesse. It is a novel profoundly relevant to our times, to a generation that is more concerned and attuned to moral and spiritual values than previous generations. Impakter Magazine
In a literary market flooded with shallow yogic adventure stories both fact and fiction that promise little more than sensationalism or entertainment, here comes an important, authentic, believable, riveting account on the level of Hermann Hesse or Victor Frankl. This is a superbly written meditation on effort and grace, a do-or-die quest for spiritual transformation, a journey from darkness to light, and a psychological thriller, which strips away artifice in a relentless quest to discover meaning and shows us how the lotus can rise from the muck of a Bronx sewer to blossom calmly in the cool Himalayan moonlight. Sharon Gannon, co-author of Jivamukti Yoga
Filled with adventure and excitement. A quest for answers that bother all of us at some level. Times of India
An instant bestseller. One man s epic quest to merge with the universal oneness. India Today
A special story. Engaging, convincing, and highly readable. Keeps the readers engrossed till the very last page. The Statesman
Shortlisted for the Golden Quill Award
Shortlisted for the Teacher's Achievement Award
Shortlisted for the Crossword Book Pick of the Year
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