Swami on Rye
  • Published: 15 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9781681372365
  • Imprint: NY Review Childrens
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 48
  • RRP: $45.00

Swami on Rye

Max in India

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Max the dog's beloved wife Crepes is about to have puppies--and Max finds himself on a wild journey in India, returning home just in time to meet his expanded family

Max the dog's beloved wife Crepes is about to have puppies--and Max finds himself on a wild journey in India, returning home just in time to meet his expanded family

The hero of Max Makes a Million goes off on a wild search for the meaning of life that takes him to India, where he visits the Temple of Doubletalk, meets a chatty guru named Vivek Shabaza-zaza-za, and has other adventures.
  • Published: 15 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9781681372365
  • Imprint: NY Review Childrens
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 48
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Maira Kalman

In her own words: 'born. bucolic childhood. culture-stuffed adolescence. played piano. stopped. danced. stopped. wrote. discarded writing. drew. reinstated writing. married Tibor Kalman and collaborated at iconoclastic yet successful design studio. wrote and painted children's books. worried. took up Ping-Pong. relaxed. wrote and painted for many magazines.  cofounded the Rubber Band Society. amused. children: two. dog: one.'

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Praise for Swami on Rye

"In his best venture so far, Max the dog searches for the Meaning of Life and finds several possibilities...[Kalman's] writing is as funny and furiously paced as ever and her seemingly slapdash illustrations still sophisticated and childlike at once. She observes people, religions, and customs in witty but respectful ways, and as in Chicken Soup, Boots (1993), beneath all the silliness lurk important ideas, thoughtfully expressed." --Kirkus starred review

"[Kalman's] witty, free-association writing style is enhanced to maximum effect by the varied, cleverly employed typography. A perfect union of place and palette, of dharma, (dog)ma and unsurpassed cosmological kookiness." --Publishers Weekly starred review