A gift to be grateful for. It gives us, as all poetry should, access into a world we did not know or did not know well enough and which henceforth we will visit again and again.--David Constantine

A spellbinding reading experience and a magisterial achievement.--Eva Hoffman

A kind of miracle: a talented English poet has brought alive in blank verse an ancient Sanskrit epic for the contemporary ear and in a language that does not draw attention to itself but captures the weft and warp of the original thrilling tale, including its moral complexity.--Gurcharan Das

A remarkable achievement.-- "The New Statesman"

An exquisitely crafted reminder of the power of the Mahabharata: how riveting a read it is, and how relevant it remains to our times.--Manil Suri

Like the Iliad, the Mahabharata has everything: love, war, family, gods, all the beauty and horror of life. I hope Carole Satyamurti's compelling version will introduce this marvelous epic, still largely unknown in the west, to a whole generation of new readers.--Katha Pollitt

[A] bold and masterful retelling...Satyamurti's version flows with exhilarating clarity and momentum.--Donna Seaman "Booklist"

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Pub date: 2016-02-22

Length: 928 pages