The Yoga of Max's Discontent: A Novel

The story gets you hooked from the very start. It's an easy read but pretty enjoyable. The scenes and conversations are concise and to the point and quickly gives you the picture of what's happening. There is no unnecessary stretches of scenes or long musings of the author. As the name of the book indicates, it's a story about a guy named Max. He is tall, not only in his physic but in his ambition. He was born in a ruin surrounded by poverty, drugs, alcohol, promiscuity, you name it. However, he works his way up the social ladder, up he goes into Trinity and Harvard and later he finds a decent job in New York. The story begins when Max and his sister are walking out of the hospital where their sick mother is taking her last breaths. On some incidents, he meets a vendor on that streets whose face shines from calmness and serenity and whose body is unconcerned by elemental. He introduces Max to the Yogis of Himalaya. Fed up with the circle of life and death, Max set into a mission to find a new life that brings him the kind of calmness he witnessed in the vendor's face. Abandoning his life, he starts a quest to self-completion, he undergoes unbelievable sufferings, yet emerges with unbelievable accomplishments...