155 sidor ; 18 cm, 155 pages
Swedish language
Published Nov. 19, 2012 by Bonnier Pocket.
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.
