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The Devil Take Love. (Penguin:2015)
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From Reviews |
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Kakar’s impeccable research is faultless… superbly crafted novel. |
Indian Express |
The ease with which the narrative flows is a testimony to his feat of imagination…peppered with insights into poetics. |
Business Line |
Kakar has imaginatively recreated the life of Bhartrihari, the greatest Sanskrit poet
of love, renowned for vacillating between an exuberant life of pleasure and one of
world-weary austerity. |
Outlook |
The Devil Take Love is an ambitious fictional experiment…that Kakar is mostly
successful is a testimony to his skill and passion… Kakar already has a vastly
impressive oeuvre…his latest novel is a worthy addition to that list. |
Mint Lounge |
[The] vivid description of market places, caravans, ddresses. Trade, rituals, customs
and the languages intersoersed in the story [make] the reading engaging—a trait
not many novels can boast [of] |
The Hindu |
Sudhir Kakar has written a wonderfully imagined novel |
Sunday Guardian |
One foot as a historian, and the other in the imaginative eroticism of the age…a
comment on our contemporary struggle between traditionalists and devotees of
pleasure. |
India Today |
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