# Three Poisons

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- Book: [Three Poisons](https://www.bookquiver.com/kriben-pillay/three-poisons) ([Three Poisons.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kriben-pillay/three-poisons.md))
- Authors: [Kriben Pillay](https://www.bookquiver.com/kriben-pillay)
- Publisher: non_duality_press
- ISBN: 978-19-0866-451-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2014-12-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Three Poisons is a collection of three short stories " giving remarkably vivid and imaginative expression, in a contemporary setting" of the three hindrances to freedom: greed, ill-will and delusion. The setting is South Africa and, far from being bitter or nihilistic, the stories are shot through with an affection for humanity-its cultures and its frailties. It " bears testament to the subtlety of Pillay's understanding of philosophy, the slippery cleft between normality/madness and the complexity of ordinary lives in an extraordinary society." Nowhere does Kriben tell us what to think, but he sets us on a path to make our own enquiry-or just to enjoy three first-rate, truly original short stories.