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Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling
Carole Satyamurti
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Description for Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling
Hardcover. "Astonishing.. [Satyamurti's Mahabharata] brings [the] past alive .. as though it were a novel in finely crafted verse."-Vinay Dharwadker Num Pages: 928 pages, Map. BIC Classification: DCF; HRGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1362.
The Mahabharata, originally composed some two thousand years ago is an epic masterpiece, "a hundred times more interesting" than the Iliad and the Odyssey (Wendy Doniger), it 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, it is one of the most important and influential works in the history of world civilisation.
This new English retelling, innovatively composed in blank verse, covers all the books of the Mahabharata. It masterfully captures the beauty, excitement and profundity of the original Sanskrit poem as ... Read more
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
1340g
Number of Pages
928
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393081756
SKU
V9780393081756
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About Carole Satyamurti
Carol Satyamurti was a poet and social scientist. She published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Countdown. Her work has been widely anthologized and won numerous awards, including first prize in the National Poetry Competition, 1986, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2000. Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling, of which this volume is an abridgment, won the inaugural ... Read more
Reviews for Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling
"Carole Satyamurti’s Mahabharata, crucially not a translation, uses previous English versions as a springboard for her blank-verse "modern retelling". Her aim has been to produce a readable and gripping narrative, focusing on the story, for the reader who may have little or no previous knowledge of the epic, and in this she has been resoundingly successful."
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