Palast Der Hoffnung Roman
ISBN:
9783453354463 (345335446X)
Publish date: 2009
Publisher: Diana-Verl
Edition language: Deutsch
Fun, accessible retelling of an epic I'm not familiar with - it's given me a strong starting point; from what I've seen it appears she's quite faithful to the original, only reassessing character motivations. The narrator has a strong voice and the author does a good job making character decisions s...
3.5 StarsI have read a lot of mythology. I know the stories of the Celtic tribes, the Germanic people who would conquer them, the Romans l the Greeks, and even of many of the nation's who inhabited North America. I am less familiar with the mythologies of the East, particularly India. Perhaps it was...
I don't know why I wasted my time reading this book which was neither true nor was it entertaining. This was more like a fan fiction of Draupadi and Karna and nothing else. No idea what the author wanted to make us feel here by telling Mahabharata from Draupadi's point of view. Was she trying to por...
I'd give it six stars if I could.Peak reading experiences come all too seldom in life. I think one knows it's a peak when it's almost too painful to endure that the book is ending, but almost too painful to endure to put it down and turn out the light. Then the book comes to you in your dreams, the ...
I enjoyed this book but something "bothered" me about it. Divakaruni writes well and it's well paced but it wasn't until the final pages that I realized why I was dissatisfied with it.It's a fundamental disagreement with the philosophy underlying the Mahabharat, which was articulated by Krishna to D...
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