I would use them over the long years of exile to gain what I wanted, no matter what its price. When the moment came I couldn't resist it, no more than a dog can resist chewing a bone that, splintering, makes his mouth bleed.Īlready I was storing these lessons inside me. They inhabit a world where divine beings and magic are commonplace. Her brother, Dhri, is born this way as well. Married to five royal husbands who have been cheated out of their fathers kingdom. The novel is narrated from the point of view of Panchaali, a princess who is born from fire. Taking us back to a time that is half history, half myth and wholly magical, bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni gives voice to Panchaali, the fire-born heroine of the Mahabharata, as she weaves a vibrant retelling of an ancient epic saga. But I, too, was tainted with them, vengeance encoded into my blood. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s 2008 novel, The Palace of Illusions, is a retelling of the ancient Hindu epic The Mahabharata. I'd thought myself above the cravings that drove him. All this time I'd thought myself better than my father, better than all those men who inflicted harm on a thousand innocents in order to punish the one man who had wronged them. He knew he would regret it-in his fierce smile there had already been a glint of pain.īut was a woman's heart any purer, in the end? That was why he incited Dussasan to an action that was against the code of honor by which he lived his life. That was why he turned on me when I refused to ask for his pity. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with him though he could have stopped my suffering with a single world. “For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride.
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