The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
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Overview: In this award-winning, internationally acclaimed novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the 2,000 year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Chronicling the Indian struggle for freedom and independence from Great Britain, Tharoor directs his hilarious satire as much against Indian foibles as the bumbling of the British rulers. Figures from Indian history are transformed into characters from mythology, and the mythical story of India is retold as a history of Indian independence and subsequent history, up through the 1980s. The work includes numerous puns and allusions to famous works about India, such as those by Rudyard Kipling, Paul Scott, and E. M. Forster.
Britain’s Financial Times described it as “a real tour de force”, the Sunday Observer called it a “masterpiece” and The Indian Express advised “every sane Indian” to buy a copy. Khushwant Singh called it “perhaps the best work of fiction written by an Indian in recent years”.
The book appeared in French, Italian, German and Spanish etc; it was translated into three regional Indian languages – Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam – and was the subject of dozens of PhDs.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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