121 pages
Published April 9, 2008 by Penguin Books Ltd.
Siddhartha
Translated from the german by Hilda Rosner. With an introduction by Paulo Coelho
4 stars
(12 reviews)
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.
