Mahabharata

"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

About the author

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.

Summary

About Carole Satyamurti’s translation.

Product details

• Assisted by: Carole Satyamurti (Translation)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2021
• EAN: 9780393427868
• ISBN: 978-0-393-42786-8
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Series: The Norton Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; POETRY / General, Poetry, RELIGION / Hinduism / Sacred Writings, Hindu Sacred Texts, Hinduism: sacred texts and revered writings, Poetry / Poems