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Author : Nandi Timmana
Release : 2024-02
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Book Synopsis Theft of a Tree - a Tale by the Court Poet of the Vijayanagara Empire by : Nandi Timmana
Download or read book Theft of a Tree - a Tale by the Court Poet of the Vijayanagara Empire written by Nandi Timmana. This book was released on 2024-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nandi Timmana
Release : 2024-02-13
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Theft of a Tree by : Nandi Timmana
Download or read book Theft of a Tree written by Nandi Timmana. This book was released on 2024-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of a thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama, retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire. Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Pārijātāpaharaṇamu, to help the wife of Krishnadevaraya, king of the south Indian Vijayanagara Empire, win back her husband’s affections. Timmana based his work on a popular millennium-old Krishna tale. Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole the wish-granting pārijāta tree from the garden of Indra, king of the gods. Krishna takes the tree to please his favorite wife, Satyabhama, who is upset when he gifts his chief queen a single divine flower. After battling Indra, he plants the pārijāta for Satyabhama—but she must perform a rite temporarily relinquishing it and her husband to enjoy endless happiness. This is the first English translation of the poem, which prefigures the modern Telugu novel with its unprecedented narrative unity.
Author : Nandi Timmana
Release : 2022-04-07
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Book Synopsis Theft of a Tree by : Nandi Timmana
Download or read book Theft of a Tree written by Nandi Timmana. This book was released on 2022-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jun'ichirō. Tanizaki
Release : 2022-01-04
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 419/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Longing and Other Stories by : Jun'ichirō. Tanizaki
Download or read book Longing and Other Stories written by Jun'ichirō. Tanizaki. This book was released on 2022-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut in 1910. This book presents three powerful stories of family life from the first decade of Tanizaki’s career that foreshadow the themes the great writer would go on to explore. “Longing” recounts the fantastic journey of a precocious young boy through an eerie nighttime landscape. Replete with striking natural images and uncanny human encounters, it ends with a striking revelation. “Sorrows of a Heretic” follows a university student and aspiring novelist who lives in degrading poverty in a Tokyo tenement. Ambitious and tormented, the young man rebels against his family against a backdrop of sickness and death. “The Story of an Unhappy Mother” describes a vivacious but self-centered woman’s drastic transformation after a freak accident involving her son and daughter-in-law. Written in different genres, the three stories are united by a focus on mothers and sons and a concern for Japan’s traditional culture in the face of Westernization. The longtime Tanizaki translators Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy masterfully bring these important works to an Anglophone audience.
Author : Bullhe Shah
Release : 2021-02-23
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sufi Lyrics by : Bullhe Shah
Download or read book Sufi Lyrics written by Bullhe Shah. This book was released on 2021-02-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern translation of verses by Bullhe Shah, the iconic eighteenth-century Sufi poet, treasured by readers worldwide to this day. Bullhe Shah’s work is among the glories of Panjabi literature, and the iconic eighteenth-century poet is widely regarded as a master of mystical Sufi poetry. His verses, famous for their vivid style and outspoken denunciation of artificial religious divisions, have long been beloved and continue to win audiences around the world. This striking new translation is the most authoritative and engaging introduction to an enduring South Asian classic.
