| Title | : | Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (250 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393352498 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 928 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-22 |
| Genre | : |
“Astonishing. Satyamurti’s Mahabharata brings the past alive as though it were a novel in finely crafted verse.”Vinay DharwadkerOriginally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the Mahabharata tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over their kingdom results in a devastating war. But it contains much more than conflict. An epic masterpiece of huge sweep and magisterial power, “a hundred times more interesting” than the Iliad and the Odyssey, writes Wendy Doniger in the introduction, the Mahabharata is a timeless work that evokes a world of myth, passion, and warfare while exploring eternal questions of duty, love, and spiritual freedom. A seminal Hindu text, which includes the Bhagavad Gita, it is also one of the most important and influential works in the history of world civilization.Innovatively composed in blank verse rather than prose, Carole S
Editorial : “A remarkable achievement.” (The New Statesman)
“An exquisitely crafted reminder of the power of the Mahabharata: how riveting a read it is, and how relevant it remains to our times.” (Manil Suri)
“A gift to be grateful for. It gives us, as all poetry should, access into a world we did not know or did not know well enough and which henceforth we will visit again and again.” (David Constantine)
“A spellbinding reading experience and a magisterial achievement.” (Eva Hoffman)
“Like the Iliad, the Mahabharata has everything: love, war, family, gods, all the beauty and horror of life. I hope Carole Satyamurti’s compelling version will introduce this marvelous epic, still largely unknown in the west, to a whole generation of new readers.” (Katha Pollitt)
“A kind of miracle: a talented English poet has brought alive in blank verse an ancient
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