My Life in Orange - Couverture souple

Guest, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1862076324 ISBN 13 : 9781862076327

Editeur : Granta Books, 2004

Synopsis

In 1981 Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune in a small village in Suffolk. It was modelled on the teachings of the famous Indian "guru", Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy and sexual freedom. Both were given Sanskrit names, dressed entirely in orange and instructed to completely abandon their former identities. Tim - or Yogesh, as he was now known - spent the rest of his childhood in Bhagwan's various communes in England, Oregon, Pune and Cologne. While his mother meditated, chanted and ran therapy groups, Yogesh lived a life of unsupervised freedom, occasionally catching glimpses of the strange behaviour of the adults around him. In 1985 the movement collapsed after Bhagwan's arrest and Yogesh was once again Tim, about to start life at a secondary school in North London, alone with the secret of his extraordinary childhood. In his first book, Guest describes the other-worldly experience of growing up in a environment of unsupervised freedom and often disturbing adult behaviour.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tim Guest writes for the Guardian and Daily Telegraph. He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1862076324
• ISBN 13: 9781862076327
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible