Frieze
2nd edition
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- £6.49
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- £6.49
Publisher Description
This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse–artist relationship as few works of fiction have done, this novel is an intensely political work—a parable that pits the blind cruelty of a feudal ruler against the creative expression of a single slave.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gopal the carver tells of building the temple of Borobudur, the mighty monument to Buddha built in Java during the 10th century. PW called this a "tour de force, a taut, highly compressed narrative of impressive power.''
GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2007
1 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
160
Pages
PUBLISHER
Wings Press
SIZE
2.3
MB