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The Great Indian Novel is a satirical novel by Shashi Tharoor, first published by Viking Press in 1989. It is a fictional work that takes the story of the Mahabharata, the Indian epic, and recasts and resets it in the context of the Indian independence movement and the first three decades post-independence.
16 de sept. de 2013 · The great Indian novel. by. Tharoor, Shashi, 1956-. Publication date. 1989. Topics. Mahābhārata -- Adaptations, India -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. Publisher. New York : Arcade Pub.
1 de ene. de 1989 · Perhaps his most famous work is The Great Indian Novel, published in 1989, in which he uses the narrative and theme of the famous Indian epic Mahabharata to weave a satirical story of Indian life in a non-linear mode with the characters drawn from the Indian Independence Movement.
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...
12 de sept. de 2014 · The Great Indian Novel. Shashi Tharoor. Penguin Books Limited, Sep 12, 2014 - Fiction - 640 pages. The Mahabharata meets modern Indian history in an intellectual roller coaster ride of a...
A fictional work that reimagines the Mahabharata as a history of India from independence to the 1980s. The novel features historical figures as mythological characters and uses puns and allusions to other works about India.
Tharoor weaves the story of the great, mythic Indian struggle for freedom from the largest, most powerful empire in the history of mankind using characters from The Mahabharata to represent independence leaders and modern leaders (you can easily pick out Indira Gandhi).
