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{{short description|2005 novel by Sattar Memon}}
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| author = [[Sattar Memon]]
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| country = [[India]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
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| genre = [[Novel]]
| publisher = [[Iuniverse Inc]]
| release_date = April 2005
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| media_type = Print ([[Paperback]] & [[Hardcover|Hardback]])
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| isbn = 0-595-09406-6

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| website = http://www.ashrambooks.com
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'''''The Ashram''''' is a 2005 novel by Indian writer [[Sattar Memon]], about the plight of an oppressed young woman in [[India]].

==Plot summary==
Jonathan Kingsley tries to save himself from suicidal thoughts after the death of his wife by travelling to a Himalayan spiritual hermitage, known as an Ashram, to provide him peace through volunteer work.

As the doctor searches for an excuse to keep on living, Seeta struggles to keep her own husband alive, both out of love and for her own safety. The townspeople of Baramedi, bowing to the wishes of a local landowner (nicknamed Satan), have decided that when her husband dies, Seeta should climb onto a burning [[pyre]] to burn with his body. This practice of [[suttee]], out of use for many years, brings Jonathan to her town in an effort to save her, but when he arrives at the pyre, he realizes there is more to his journey, and that the woman's safety is intricately tied with his own spiritual salvation.

==Awards and nominations==
''The Ashram'' won a top prize in the [[Writer's Digest International]] (2005) Self-Published Book Awards, in the "inspirational books" category.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indianewengland.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=EF37C06B416C45078B6FBC8ADF720600 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130704161431/http://www.indianewengland.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=EF37C06B416C45078B6FBC8ADF720600 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-07-04 |title=Cancer specialist Memon wins award for The Ashram |date=2005-10-27 |accessdate=2013-04-07 }}</ref>

''The Ashram'' also won third place in the Pen/Nob Hill Soulmaking Contest.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.soulmakingcontest.us/page6.html | title=Last Year's Winners (2005) | work=Soul-Making Literary Competition | accessdate=January 10, 2017| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711032447/http://www.soulmakingcontest.us/page6.html | archivedate=July 11, 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Movie rights to the book were acquired in 2008.

==Notes==
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==See also==
{{portal|Novels}}
*[[Ashram]]

==External links==
*[http://www.ashrambooks.com Sattar Memon website]
*[http://www.indianewengland.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&AudID=9385736839DB419F9BE37F2714C206BA&tier=4&id=EF37C06B416C45078B6FBC8ADF720600 Cancer specialist Memon wins award for “The Ashram”]
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060813143639/http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=2822 Book Review - The Ashram]}}
*[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=uJ3LZuuC37&isbn=1413420699&itm=2 Readers' Reviews]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ashram}}
[[Category:2005 Indian novels]]
[[Category:Indian English-language novels]]
[[Category:Novels set in India]]

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