Shakuntala

The Play of Memory

von Namita Gokhale

216 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

On the ghats of Kashi, the most ancient of cities, a woman confronts memories that have pursued her through birth and rebirth. In the life she recalls, she Shakuntala of the northern mountains-spirited, imaginative, but destined like her legendary namesake to suffer 'the samskaras of abandonment'. Stifled by social custom, hungry for experience, she deserts home and family for the company of a Greek horse merchant she meets by the Ganga. Together, they travel far and wide and surrender to unbridled pleasure, as Shakuntala assumes the identity of Yaduri, the fallen woman. But an old restlessness compels her to forsake this life as well-and court tragedy.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9780143062271
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.10.2023
• Größe: 199 x 131 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd