The Oldest Boy
A Play in Three Ceremonies
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 145 pages ; 21 cm
In this moving exploration of parenthood, an American mother and a Tibetan father have a three-year-old son believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama. When a Tibetan lama and a monk come to their home unexpectedly, asking to take their child away for a life of spiritual training in India, the parents must make a life-altering choice that will test their strength, their marriage, and their hearts.
The Oldest Boy is a richly emotional journey filled with music, dance, puppetry, ritual, and laughter--Sarah Ruhl at her imaginative best. A meditation on attachment and unconditional love, the play asks us to believe in a world in which sometimes the youngest children are also the oldest and wisest teachers.
ISBN:
9780374535872 (paperback)
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LITERATURE Drama Ruh | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Drama Ruh | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Drama Ruh | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Drama Ruh | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-144).