The Tree of the Doves

The Tree of the Doves
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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 9781571313058
ISBN-13 : 1571313052
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Book Synopsis The Tree of the Doves by : Christopher Merrill

Download or read book The Tree of the Doves written by Christopher Merrill and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking several ageless questions--"Where do we come from? Where are we going? What shall we do?"--as his point of departure, award-winning author Christopher Merrill explores the related issues of terror, modernity, tradition, and epochal transformation. In three extended essays, Merrill observes the performance of a banned ritual in the Malaysian province of Kelatan; traces Saint-John Perse's epic voyage from Beijing to Ulan Bator in 1921, and relates it to the China of today; and embarks on a trip across the Levant in 2007 in the wake of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Merrill asserts that it is in this trinity of human actions--ceremony, expedition, and war--that history is formed; and that the political, environmental, and social changes we're witnessing now presage the end of one order and the creation of another.


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