The Great Indian Novel (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
432
Utgivningsdatum
2011-09-01
Förlag
Skyhorse Publishing
Dimensioner
229 x 155 x 30 mm
Vikt
513 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781611453188

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The Great Indian Novel (häftad)

The Great Indian Novel

av Shashi Tharoor
Häftad Engelska, 2011-09-01
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"An entertaining tour de force."--Sunday Times [London] In this award-winning novel, Shashi Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and The Mahabharata. Tharoor reimagines the great epic by comparing it with a modern politics through a his cantankerous narrator VedaVyasa (VV) who assumes himself to be a part of the drama which unfolds as he narrates the tale in a first person narrative to an obliging Ganapathi. While other writers have focused on Kauravas and Pandavas, Tharoor turns his attention to the previous generation of Dhritarashtra, Pandu and Vidur. The names he uses for the characters and places in the novel are a delight. Readers will be amused when they recognize his references, which are sometimes obvious and sometimes not so. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.
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Shashi Tharoor s first novel ranks him with political satirists such as Skvorecky, Aksyonov, Voinovich, Fuentes.

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Shashi Tharoor was born in London and brought up in Bombay and Calcutta. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Times of India, and Foreign Affairs. A human rights activist and winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize, he is currently a member of the Indian Parliament and lives in New Dehli, India.