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Siddhartha is a novel which can answer the questions of the meaning of life.

If you are someone who is in search of a good book to read during any free time you may have and want something unique, deep and at the same time easy to understand, then the novel with the quirky name Siddhartha by a Nobel Prize recipient Hermann Hesse is definitely for you.

Some people say that we can reach the peak of pleasure from reading only when we recognize our own thoughts being written by the author and this is what happens in Siddhartha.

What it introduces is a universal story of life with its faults and successes, so everyone can easily find something to relate to.

According to the author, Siddhartha is a name of the guy who lives in times of Gautama Buddha in India. This very name is remarkable because it copies the actual name of Buddha himself, so from the beginning we start to find certain parallels between the spiritual teacher and the main character representing the search of truth in life.

Siddhartha lives in prosperity as a son of a respected priest, Brahman, but one day he decides to leave his normal life behind and go on a journey to understand the real value of his life. He has a friend, Govinda who follows him wherever he goes and together they have a conversation with Buddha that helps them understand their place in this world.

These two friends travel both together and apart meeting different people from whom they learn new things, and we as readers can feel the pure taste of wisdom through the words of the author.

Siddhartha meets a courtesan in the city he comes across; he falls in love and then he has to discover what it means to become part of a completely new society, which lives by the laws he knows nothing about.

Starting his journey out as a recluse; Siddhartha, the truth seeker, gets a job and a family, so the story of a life circle repeats itself.

The spirit of Siddhartha still stays unsatisfied though and in search of wisdom of an even more supreme kind and the meaning of life, he goes back to the places he started from.

This thin and sublime book written by Hesse after his journey to India is not just a regular book about a person who’s trying to find his place under the sun. To a certain extent, it provides us with a specific approach, with its unique description of the world, which is really exciting to read about.

The author shows the things he insists create genuine happiness. There are lots of positive and negative experiences in our everyday life, a lot of pros and cons we should evaluate in order to truly be successful, but Siddhartha tends to somehow show up on the other side of the river. When life can be seen in its absolute completeness, what is left? That question can be answered with this book.