?Carole Satyamurti's version of the Mahabharata moves swiftly and powerfully. She has found a voice that's capable of a wide variety of expression, and a line?basically classical English blank verse with a jazz-like freedom to swing?that propels the reader effortlessly onward through the cosmic, terrifying, erotic, sublime events of this extraordinary work. I think I shall never get tired of it.?

?PHILIP PULLMAN, author of?The Golden Compass

Mahabharata Reviews

"Carole Satyamurtis version of the Mahabharata moves swiftly and powerfully. She has found a voice thats capable of a wide variety of expression, and a linebasically classical English blank verse with a jazz-like freedom to swingthat propels the reader effortlessly onward through the cosmic, terrifying, erotic, sublime events of this extraordinary work. I think I shall never get tired of it." -- Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass

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 Roehampton Poetry Prize in 2015.

Additional information

Sku

NGR9780393427868

ISBN 13

9780393427868

ISBN 10

0393427862

Title

Mahabharata by Carole Satyamurti

Author

Carole Satyamurti

Series

The Norton Library

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Year published

2021-01-08

Number of pages

720

Prizes

N/A

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