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      The Great Indian Novel

      by Shashi Tharoor
      Published
      Apr 1989
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.

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      First Edition Apr 1989 Penguin (UK) ISBN 0140120491
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      Sep 1989 Viking ISBN 0670827444
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      Apr 1991 Arcade Pub ISBN 1559701161
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