Publisher's Synopsis
Siddhartha is a novel based on the early life of Buddha that deals with the spiritual search for self-realization by a young Brahman, Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.
Realizing the paradoxes between reality and what he has been taught, he abandons his comfortable life to wander through life searching for the serenity that will enable him to defeat fear and to experience with calmness the contrasts of life, including joy and sorrow, life and death.
