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Ashes for the Elephant God
by Vijaya Schartz
Published 2000
Publisher: Blue Planet Books Inc.
ISBN: 978-1930501003

Trade Paperback

To scatter her brother's ashes over the Narmada River, Fabienne leaves France for the mysterious India of her childhood dreams. Soon, as she awakens to a newfound spirituality, unexpected visions of a former life during the Raj stir ancient yearnings for a long lost passion. Mukunda, the palace architect Fabienne loved a century and a half ago, lives again as an American engineer and works on the local dam project. As Fabienne falls in love again with India and the man of her destiny, the tapestry of her previous life unfolds. But, in the karmic land of the blue gods, a ruthless foe lies in wait. The Kali worshiper, who murdered the two lovers in a faraway past, has come back through the centuries to thwart their dream once more.

Love, reincarnation, spiritual awakenings, suspense! The ancient jungle comes alive with fires, and modern India reels with dangerous floods and deadly mud slides. A struggle for survival. A feast for the senses.

This book won an IPPY Award (Independant Press Award) in the Visionary Fiction Category at BEA in Chicago in 2001


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