W. W. Norton & Company
January 2012
On Sale: January 9, 2012
400 pages ISBN: 0393082709 EAN: 9780393082708 Kindle: B005LW5JH6 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
With a nod to the Indian masterpiece the Mahabharata, a multithraded, raucous epic about family and faith.
Bold and entertaining, Leelas Book weaves a tale of contemporary Delhi that crosses religious and social boundaries. Leela-alluring, taciturn, haunted-is moving from New York back to Delhi, where her return will unsettle precariously balanced lives. Twenty-five years earlier, her sister was seduced by the egotistical Vyasa. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is preparing for his sons marriage. But when Leela arrives, she disrupts the careful choreography of the wedding, with its myriad attendees and their conflicting desires.
Gleefully presiding over the drama is Ganesh-divine, Βelephant-headed scribe of the Mahabharata, Indias great epic. The family 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 Vyasa.
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