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The Demon's Daughter: A Love Story from South India
Contributor(s): Suranna, Pingali (Author), Narayana Rao, Velcheru (Afterword by), Shulman, David (Afterword by)
ISBN: 0791466957     ISBN-13: 9780791466957
Publisher: State University of New York Press
OUR PRICE:   $90.25  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2006
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2005012507
Series: SUNY Series in Hindu Studies
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.75" W x 8.74" (0.60 lbs) 122 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Hindu
 
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Publisher Description:
The Demon's Daughter (Prabhavati-pradyumnamu) is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in Telugu, the language of present-day Andhra Pradesh. Suranna begins with a story from classical Hindu mythology in which a demon plans to overthrow the gods. Krishna's son Pradyumna is sent to foil the plot and must infiltrate the impregnable city of the demons; Krishna helps ensure his success by having a matchmaking goose cause Pradyumna to fall in love with the demon's daughter. The original story focuses on the ongoing war between gods and anti-gods, but Pingali Suranna makes it an exploration of the experience of being and falling in love. In this, the work evinces a modern sensibility, showing love as both an individualized emotion and the fullest realization of a person, transcending social and cultural barriers.

The translators include an afterword that explores the cultural setting of the work and its historical and literary contexts. Anyone interested in the literature and mythology of India will find this book compelling, but all readers who love a good story will enjoy this moving book. Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have provided an elegant translation that will serve well the contemporary reader who wishes to encounter a masterwork of world literature largely unknown in the West.