Gayathri Prabhu

The Untitled (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

It is 1798 and Richard Dawson, an English painter, has arrived on the southern coast of India, looking for employment. Finding his fellow countrymen unhelpful, he boldly travels to the kingdom of Tipu Sultan to catch history in the making. Though reputedly cruel to the British, Tipu allows Richard to stay at his fort in Srirangapatna, much to the resentment of his courtiers.As Richard and his apprentice, a runaway Brahmin boy called Mukunda, experiment with Indian and Western styles of painting, they find themselves drawn into a high-stakes political intrigue. Devised by the women of the former royal family of Mysore, the Wodeyars, and catalysed by the striking Suhasini, this plan to oust Tipu must involve active support from Richard and Mukunda. Both painters fall under the spell of the elusive Suhasini, even as their paintings become the unexpected crux of the last Anglo-Mysore War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fourth Estate
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789352640614
• Artikelnr.: 59895273

Autorenporträt

Gayathri Prabhu is the author of the memoir If I Had to Tell It Again, and the novels The Untitled, Birdswim Fishfly and Maya. She is the recipient of the RK Narayan award (2019) and teaches literary studies at the Manipal Centre for Humanities.