{"product_id":"mahabharata-a-modern-retelling-9780393352498","title":"Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the \u003cem\u003eMahabharata\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over their kingdom results in a devastating war. But it contains much more than conflict. An epic masterpiece of huge sweep and magisterial power, \"a hundred times more interesting\" than the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, writes Wendy Doniger in the introduction, the \u003cem\u003eMahabharata\u003c\/em\u003e is a timeless work that evokes a world of myth, passion, and warfare while exploring eternal questions of duty, love, and spiritual freedom. A seminal Hindu text, which includes the \u003cem\u003eBhagavad Gita\u003c\/em\u003e, it is also one of the most important and influential works in the history of world civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInnovatively composed in blank verse rather than prose, Carole Satyamurti's English retelling covers all eighteen books of the \u003cem\u003eMahabharata\u003c\/em\u003e. This new version masterfully captures the beauty, excitement, and profundity of the original Sanskrit poem as well as its magnificent architecture and extraordinary scope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSatyamurti, Carole:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eCarol Satyamurti\u003c\/strong\u003e was a poet and social scientist. She published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which is \u003cem\u003eCountdown\u003c\/em\u003e. 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. \u003cem\u003eMahabharata: A Modern Retelling\u003c\/em\u003e, of which this volume is an abridgment, won the inaugural Roehampton Poetry Prize in 2015.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoniger, Wendy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eWendy Doniger\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She first trained as a dancer under George Balanchine and Martha Graham and then went on to complete two doctorates in Sanskrit and Indian Studies (from Harvard and Oxford). She has taught at Harvard, Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and the University of California at Berkeley. In 1984 she was elected president of the American Academy of Religion, in 1989 a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1996 a member of the American Philosophical Society, and in 1997 president of the Association for Asian Studies. She has been awarded seven honorary degrees, and her book \u003cem\u003eThe Hindus: An Alternative History\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDharwadker, Vinay:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eVinay Dharwadker\u003c\/strong\u003e (University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the author of \u003cem\u003eCosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (2001) and a book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eSunday at the Lodi Gardens: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1994). He is the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (1994) and \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), and the translator of a collection of Kabir's work called \u003cem\u003eKabir: The Weaver's Songs\u003c\/em\u003e (2003).","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50668982731026,"sku":"9780393352498","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_30f76b01-52f4-43e7-8b6d-c8b6302a1684.jpg?v=1733754114","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mahabharata-a-modern-retelling-9780393352498","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}