Mahabharata
A Modern Retelling
WW Norton · Print & ebook · March 8, 2016
"Astonishing…[Satyamurti’s Mahabharata] brings [the] past alive…as though it were a novel in finely crafted verse." —Vinay Dharwadker Originally 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.
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- Who it’s for
- A sweeping ancient epic meets the measured cadence of modern blank verse.
- Genres
- Epic Poetry, Hindu Sacred Writings, Indian Fiction
- Published
- WW Norton, March 8, 2016
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"Astonishing…[Satyamurti’s Mahabharata] brings [the] past alive…as though it were a novel in finely crafted verse." —Vinay Dharwadker Originally 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.
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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 Satyamurti’s English retelling covers all eighteen books of the Mahabharata. This new version masterfully captures the beauty, excitement, and profundity of the original Sanskrit poem as well as its magnificent architecture and extraordinary scope.
Epic in Verse
A sweeping ancient epic meets the measured cadence of modern blank verse.
Come here for
- Myth, warfare, and enduring questions of duty and spiritual freedom
- The architecture and reach of an eighteen-book epic
Expect
- A complete English retelling in blank verse
- A world of passion, gods, and royal conflict
Where it sits
| Hindu Sacred Writings | 70% |
|---|---|
| Epic Poetry | 49% |
| Indian Fiction | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hindu Sacred Writings
- Authors
- Carole Satyamurti, Vinay Dharwadker, Wendy Doniger
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- March 8, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Hindu Sacred Writings