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Bloomsbury
February 2016
On Sale: January 26, 2016
Featuring: Asanka; Magha
320 pages
ISBN: 1632860708
EAN: 9781632860705
Kindle: B017W2ZZTY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
In thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, Asanka, poet to the king,
lives a life of luxury, enjoying courtly life and a sweet,
furtive love affair with a palace servant, a village girl he
is teaching to write. But when Magha, a prince from the
mainland, usurps the throne, Asanka's role as court poet
dramatically alters. Magha is a cruel and calculating
king--and yet, a lover of poetry--and he commissions Asanka
to translate a holy Sanskrit epic into the Tamil language
spoken by his recently acquired subjects. The poem will be
an olive branch--a symbol of unity between the two cultures. But in different languages, in different contexts, meaning
can become slippery. First inadvertently, then deliberately
and dangerously, Asanka's version of the epic, centered on
the killing of an unjust ruler, inspires and arouses the
oppressed people of the land. Asanka must juggle the
capricious demands of a king with the growing demands of his
own political consciousness--and his heart--if he wishes to
survive and imagine a future with the woman he loves. The first novel from a remarkable young writer, RIVER OF INK
is a powerful historical tale set in the shadow of
oppression--one with deep allegorical resonances in any
time--celebrating the triumph of literature and love.
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