The Great Indian Novel

Synopsis

In this award-winning novel, 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 ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. 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.

In this widely acclaimed novel, Shashi Tharoor has masterfully recast the 2,000-year-old epic The Mahabharata with fictional, but highly recognizable, events and characters from 20th-century Indian politics.st and randy, like a miniseries that won't quit. . . . It should entertain everyone."--Washington Post Book World.