The Cousins: A new retelling of the central story of The Mahābhārata (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781483918136)

The Cousins tells one of the great stories of the world, set in northwestern India some 3,000 years ago. This is a world in which fisher girls become queens, kingdoms are staked in dicing matches, and military high-tech is the horse-drawn chariot -- an exotic world certainly but a very human one once you're in it. The book is a fictional re-imagining of the central story of the Indian epic Mahabharata. Despite the word "epic", the Mahabharata is actually a vast collection of stories and sermons and learned expositions, with the central story constituting only a small part. But this small part IS an epic tale, of a family feud in a royal house that eventually leads to war -- the 18-day war of the 18 armies. This is quite unlike the many re-tellings of the Mahabharata in print. First, because it's fiction and, second, because it's a story of people and politics, with no digressions into the theological or the supernatural. But although The Cousins is fiction, it is a reliable rendering of the basic story. The characters in it are the central characters in the original; the events in it are the principal events in the original; and the order in which they appear is the order in which they happen in the original.

Author: Vishwas P. Govitrikar
ISBN-10: 1483918130
ISBN-13: 9781483918136
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/21/2013
Pages: 338
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.70d