Leela's Book - Couverture rigide

Albinia, Alice

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393082709 ISBN 13 : 9780393082708

Editeur : W W Norton & Co Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Albinia Alice

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Leela - alluring, taciturn, haunted - is moving back to Delhi from New York. She knows her return will unsettle precariously balanced lives. Twenty-two years ago her sister was seduced by Vyasa, a young university lecturer. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is preparing for the unlikely marriage of his son, Ash, to the child of a Hindu nationalist. Compounding Leela's disruptive presence, Ash's hedonistic twin sister Bharati arrives from London, reluctantly leaving her cosmopolitan university life to see Ash married. Ash, meanwhile, has fallen in love with his brother-in-law to be.

Gleefully presiding over the drama is Ganesh - divine, elephant-headed scribe of India's great epic, the Mahabharata. The family patriarchs may think they have arranged the wedding for their own selfish ends, but according to Ganesh it is he who is directing events - in a bid to save Leela, his beloved heroine, from his devious enemy Vyasa.

Turning to fiction after an award-winning travel book, Alice Albinia has written a brilliantly playful and genre-defying first novel. Ambitious and entertaining, Leela's Book weaves a tale of contemporary Delhi that crosses religious and social boundaries, reaching back into the origins of the Mahabharata itself.

Revue de presse :

"A bold and delightful novel, executed with energy and flair... Albinia has pulled off the remarkable trick of melding a story about modern family ties with a timeless tale about gods and avatars. Leela's Book is as much a meditation on tensions between brothers and sisters, or between parents and their children, as it is a rumination on the nature of storytelling. For a novel so thick in plot, and so lush with details of Indian life, it reads effortlessly. The result is magnificent." (Financial Times Weekend)

"Leela's Book is a stimulating novel in which Albinia skilfully manages an intricate plot and an enormous, diverse cast of characters. Her immense historical acumen and sophisticated sense of culture have enabled her to craft a powerful tale" (The Guardian)

"Bold, playful, smart and lively." (Time Out)

"An epic, polyphonic juggernaut of a novel. Ambitious, skilfully plotted, and full of wonderful surprises. I was hooked from the very first page." (Tahmima Anam, author of A Golden Age)

"This is steeped in the tradition of the Indian epic, yet modern and vastly entertaining." (The Times)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0393082709
• ISBN 13: 9780393082708
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 422