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When in the institute recently to give an eml, the fifth estate took the opportunity to interview her about her work and future novels. Divakaruni has woven a lyrical tale imbued with the scent of ancient incense, yet simultaneously rooted in modernday relevancy. Chitra banerjee divakaruni is the creator of the top of the line books queen of dreams, mistress of spices, sister of my heart, and the vine of desire, and of the prizewinning story, accumulations arranged marriage and the unknown errors of our lives. About the palace of illusions taking us back to a time that is half history, half myth and wholly magical, bestselling author chitra banerjee divakaruni gives voice to panchaali, the fireborn heroine of the mahabharata, as she weaves a vibrant retelling of an ancient epic saga. The palace of illusions takes us back to a time that is halfhistory, halfmyth, and wholly magical. Asian literature, cultural, fantasy, fiction, historical, historical fiction, india, indian literature, mythology. Sep 04, 2009 the palace of illusion by chitra banerjee divakaruni is a retelling of the indian epic, the mahabarat, from the perspective of draupadi. Her style of magical realism rivals those of the latin american writers, establishing a new genre of indian mysticism. Divakaruni often weaves glimmering threads from the hindu sagas into her fiction, and now, in her twelfth book, she goes directly to the source, the mahabharat, indias most magnificent epic, and boldly retells this homeric tale of a battle for supremacy between two branches of a ruling dynastyand dramatization of the internal war between emotion and reasonfrom the point of view of its central.
Brimming with betrayals, religious fervor and wartorn streets, the palace of illusions is a journey experienced from the vantage point of panchaali, a powerful woman driven by love, honor and, in the end, a fate that. As chitra 19 banerjee divakaruni explains in the introduction to her novel the palace of 20 illusions, mahabharatadepicts several powerful, complex women characters that 21 affected the action in major ways. A novel is a 2008 novel by awardwinning novelist and poet chitra banerjee divakaruni. The palace of illusions audiobook by chitra banerjee.
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