The Return of Merlin

by Deepak Chopra

Overview

The author of the million-copy best-seller Ageless Body, Timeless Mind emerges as a powerful new force in fiction with a luminously written novel about the final act of the Arthurian legend playing out in modern England. The Return of Merlin is a brilliantly realized narrative that begins in Arthurian times and jumps boldly to our own 20th-century dark age of war, pollution, predation, and hatred—with a message of hope.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780449910740
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/28/1996
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	127,943
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Deepak Chopra, M.D., is the author of more than eighty books, translated into more than forty-three languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. In 1999, Time named Dr. Chopra as one of the top 100 Heroes and Icons of the twentieth century, describing him as “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine.” He is the founder and chairman of The Chopra Foundation and CEO and founder of The Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California.

Hometown:

La Jolla, California

Date of Birth:

October 22, 1946

Place of Birth:

New Delhi, India

Education:

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Editorial Reviews

The bestselling holistic health guru and popularizer of Indian Ayurvedic medicine plunges into fiction with this oddly engaging, complex tale that grafts Arthurian legend onto a police procedural set in modern England. The story begins in Camelot, as the evil wizard Mordred, King Arthur's banished bastard son, blasts the kingdom to rubble. We then leap into a grimy 20th-century British country town, where police detective Arthur Callum is investigating a case of arson and possible murder. Chopra's conceit, only partly effective, is that Arthurian figures-Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Mordred, arch rival Merlin and others-live on through the centuries, secretly assuming the identities or occupying the souls of ordinary people. In addition to these royals, knights and mystics, the plot is replete with dragons, magic, Tarot cards, sacred stone circles, the Holy Grail, Arthur's sword, Excalibur, dreams and spells. As the forces of good and evil do battle, Chopra, with sparkling wit, spiritual insight and a light touch, weaves an inspirational parable imbued with the hope that trust, love, empathy and awareness will one day supplant fear, hatred and ignorance. This is a bold, occasionally brilliant retelling of Arthurian lore, at once livelier and less pedantic than the comparable The Celestine Prophecy but still inflected with Eastern wisdom and with Chopra's New Age perception of the temporally interconnected universe posited by quantum physics. Major ad/promo; simultaneous Random House Audio; author tour. (July)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

The author of numerous New Age best sellers updates the story of Camelot in his first novel.

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