Guus Bosman

A wonderful novel, which deserves to be called one of the world's classics. This book about self-discovery and searching for the ultimate truth is not only philosophically interesting, but moreover written very beautifully.

The version of the book I read was published in the "Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek" series and it contained a lot of background information to the story. Many of the Indian religious references were explained, which was very useful.

I started reading this book as a 'warming-up' for the German language course I started in February 2004.