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G.V. Desani


Born
Nairobi, Kenya

Govindas Vishnoodas Desani or G. V. Desani, (1909–2000) was a Kenyan-born, British-educated Indian writer and Buddhist philosopher. The son of a merchant, he began his career as a journalist, and achieved fame with the cult novel All About H. Hatterr (1948), considered one of the finest examples of literature in English and a novel that compares favourably with Joyce's Ulysses. He was for a time a university professor in America, and spent many years engaged in meditation at various monasteries. A second volume, Hali and Collected Stories, was published in 1991. ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 486 ratings · 78 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
All About H. Hatterr
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3.86 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 1948 — 14 editions
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Hali / A poetic play
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“Never in my life did I do a turn with a lion. Yet, there was I, being a living plate to one!

That's Life, if anything is!”
― G.V. Desani, All About H. Hatterr
tags: humor
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