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Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling
Carole Satyamurti
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Description for Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling
Paperback. "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: HRGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
928
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
699 g
Number of Pages
928
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393352498
SKU
V9780393352498
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About Carole Satyamurti
Carol Satyamurti is a poet, sociologist, and translator. The author of many books of poetry, she has taught regularly for the Arvon Foundation and for the Poetry Society (UK). She lives in London. Wendy Doniger (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. ... 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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