River of Ink
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 beco…
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- ISBN: 978-1-63286-070-5
- EAN: 9781632860705
- Produktnummer: 18192890
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.8 cm x D2.8 cm 590 g
- Gewicht: 590
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Paul M.M. Cooper
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