Latitudes of Longing Format:Hardcover It's a heat that sears

It's a heat that sears through you yet doesn't burn

" This single act is one of the greatest gifts we can give one another

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Now the fiends must be vanquished

the role of medicine (physician

Latitudes of Longing Format:Hardcover It's a heat that searsA spellbinding work of literature, Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true intimacy. The novel sweeps across India, from an island, to a valley, a city, and a snow desert, to tell a love story of epic proportions. We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free her