Condizione: New.
Condizione: New.
Editore: Eka
ISBN 10: 9395767758 ISBN 13: 9789395767750
Da: Books in my Basket, New Delhi, India
Hardcover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9789395767750 N.A.
Editore: Eka, Westland, 2023
ISBN 10: 9395767758 ISBN 13: 9789395767750
Da: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India
Hardcover. Condizione: New. WINNER OF THE 1987 SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD Magadh, Shrikant Verma s masterpiece, was first published in Hindi in 1984 and is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern Indian poetry. A chorus of narrators commoners, statesmen, nameless wanderers pieces together the histories of ancient cities and kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent, their rise to splendour, their decline and eventual fall. In poems that are stark and urgent yet arch and richly allusive, Verma lays bare their tales of corruption, guilt, ignorance and arrogance. Rahul Soni s landmark translation stays faithful to the spareness and the haunting, incantatory cadences of the original, revealing how startlingly prescient and relevant Magadh remains even today.