“…News reaches the couple [Maharana Prince Jagat and his wife, Moti] that their only son, Jai, has been killed by the Chinese in a border skirmish, an inconsolable Moti sends Jagat out to bring the boy’s spirit home. On the journey, the prince becomes involved with a beautiful and mysterious young American woman. Thus begins the fatal attraction between Eastern and Western ways, one bound by rigid custom, the other temptingly ripe with freethinking….Her simple yet evocative language, well-developed characters, and timeless plot make Mandala a fascinating addition to the fiction shelf.” – Midwest Book Review

Praise for Mandala

“Oriental and ancient, modern and Jungian, a “mandala” is a cosmic and also an individual symbol…It is in effect an agreeable augury. If not a guarantee of happy endings, it is at least a promise of moral and ethical enhancement. In fact, practically everyone in this story laid in Northwest India…winds up finer, noble, a bit less mundane, an infinitesimally bit more godlike.” – The New York Times

“Buck comes up with a potential best seller in this novel about modern India. The reader will find himself caught up in the bittersweet romance between Jagat, a prince…and Brooke, an American heiress in search of identity. It is through their development that we see the inner struggle of a nation searching for its place it today’s world, yet reluctant to part with the past.” – Library Journal

About the Author: Pearl S. Buck

ISBN: 978-1-55921-037-9

Paperback, $13.95

362 Pages

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