{"product_id":"the-great-indian-novel-paperback","title":"The Great Indian Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShashi Tharoor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A wickedly funny satire, sparing no one, not even Mahatma Gandhi . . . Just thinking about it makes me want to go back and reread it.\"--Fareed Zakaria, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this award-winning novel, Shashi Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, \u003ci\u003eThe Mahabharata\u003c\/i\u003e, with fictionalized but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Blending history and myth, Tharoor directs his satire as much against Indian foibles as the bumbling of the British rulers to chronicle the struggle for Indian freedom and independence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Indian Novel\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that is alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving,\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShashi Tharoor\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London and brought up in Bombay and Calcutta. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Times of India, and Foreign Affairs. A human rights activist and winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize, he is currently a member of the Indian Parliament and lives in New Dehli, India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 9.03 x 6.09 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770706690336,"sku":"9781611453188","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d0ed248bbad130cc28897a3083e0b243.webp?v=1780377356","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-great-indian-novel-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}