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Queen`s Play, The
Aashish Kaul
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Description for Queen`s Play, The
Paperback. Writes the origin of chess into the narrative of The Ramayana, one of the two formative epics of ancient India. Num Pages: 142 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 146.
In the second age of the world, a time of prehistory, a time of myth, Mandodari, queen of the demon king Ravana, invents chess to carve out a role for herself in a world where male, martial virtues are paramount. As a chess player, she can play at warfare; as queen, she can be the most potent warrior on the battlefield. The Queen's Play attempts to write the origin of chess into the narrative cycles of the Ramayana, one of the two formative epics of ancient India.The cursory mention of a chess-like game in the Ramayana lore offers interesting parallels ... Read more
In the second age of the world, a time of prehistory, a time of myth, Mandodari, queen of the demon king Ravana, invents chess to carve out a role for herself in a world where male, martial virtues are paramount. As a chess player, she can play at warfare; as queen, she can be the most potent warrior on the battlefield. The Queen's Play attempts to write the origin of chess into the narrative cycles of the Ramayana, one of the two formative epics of ancient India.The cursory mention of a chess-like game in the Ramayana lore offers interesting parallels ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
142
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782798613
SKU
V9781782798613
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About Aashish Kaul
Aashish Kaul was born in India, and educated in India and Australia. He is the author of A Dream of Horses & Other Stories.
Reviews for Queen`s Play, The
The precisely realized yet dreamlike settings of Aashish Kaul's stories, the fastidious, melancholy sensibility of their no-longer-young narrators, lead us directly into the territory of late modernism, of Borges and Beckett and Nabokov. J.M.Coetzee, Booker prize winning author(Disgrace 1999) and Nobel laureate.