The Great Indian Novel
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Eurasia) and of the 1990 Federation of Indian Publishers Award for the Best Book.In this widely acclaimed novel, Shashi Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic “The Mahabharata” with fictionalized – but highly recognizable – events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Blending h….Read More
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