- Paperback: 640 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; 1st UK edition edition (1 Jun 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 045050896X
- ISBN-13: 978-0450508967
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,612,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A story of a man and a woman chosen to save their land from destruction, "Samraj" is a tapestry peopled with princes and princesses, warriors and kings of long ago, recreating the story told in India's Mahabharata, and thus grounded in historical truth. The book is the first of three volumes.
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indian mythology can be a confusing, bewildering mix of a million names upon a thousand faces and event after event after event washing through them all, much like the ceaseless ocean and beach behaviour. but elaine aron's samraj - the retelling of the lengthy indian epic the mahabharata - is a perfectly delicious and knowledgeably entertaining read. the information of the vedas is brough to life with characters embued with a terrible humanity - and the mahabharata's stress on the essentially balanced nature of man in terms of vices and virtues is brought to perfect light in her book. retold from the perspective of two characters (yudishtra, the eldest of the divine five pandavas and known as the son of dharma or righteousness and draupadi - daughter of fire - royal princess and wife to all five brothers but loved desperately by the eldest first and foremost and on whom much of india's future as the kingdom of a 100 kings depends because of the destiny she brings to the land that believes in everything unfolding like a design in a massive divine tapestry..).. a wonderful book that is expertly researched, and even more captivatingly rewritten as original epics can be so dry but this one has its human quotient down right pat. i reccommend it highly for anyone who enjoys mythology, historicals and ancient epic-style writing (no there is not too much purple prose here, its all golden)
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