BIBLIO is the largest independent book marketplace in the world, with over 100 million books.

Skip to content

Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
Stock photo: cover may vary

Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata Paperback -

by Karthika Nair

Add to wish list

Reader reviews for Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata

Write a review for this book

There are no reviews for this book yet. Be the first to write a review!

Your review will be anonymous unless you login or create an account first.

Overall rating
Remember: You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the condition of the specific copy you purchased!

Important Terms and Guidelines

  • Please focus on the book’s content and context. Also, add any personal comments as to how you enjoyed the book. Substantiate your likes and dislikes. You may make comparisons to other books.
  • Reviews must be at least 140 characters in length.
  • Please do not reveal critical plot elements.
  • This is not a help line. Contact customer support if you need help.
Your review must not include:
  • Obscenities, discriminatory language, or other insulting language not suitable for public domain
  • Advertisements, “spam” content, or references to other products, offers or websites.
  • Email addresses, URLs, phone numbers, physical addresses or other contact information.
  • Overly critical comments about other reviews or reviewers
  • Time-sensitive material (i.e. promotional tours, seminars, lectures, etc.)
  • Availability, price, or alternative ordering/shipping information

From the publisher

A dazzling and eloquent reworking of the Mahabharata, one of South Asia's best-loved epics, through nineteen peripheral voices. With daring poetic forms, Karthika Nar breathes new life into this ancient epic.

Karthika Nar refracts the epic Mahabharata through the voices of nameless soldiers, outcast warriors and handmaidens as well as abducted princesses, tribal queens, and a gender-shifting god. As peripheral figures and silent catalysts take center stage, we get a glimpse of lives and stories buried beneath the dramas of god and nation, heroics and victory - of the lives obscured by myth and history, all too often interchangeable. Until the Lions is a kaleidoscopic, poetic tour de force. It reveals the most intimate threads of desire, greed, and sacrifice in this foundational epic.

Details

  • Title Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
  • Author Karthika Nair
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 290
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Archipelago Books
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9781939810366 / 1939810361
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 6.6 x 1 in (22.10 x 16.76 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Religious poetry, Indic
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2019033782
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.92

About the author

French-Indian, poet-dance producer/curator, Karthika Nar is the author of several books, including The Honey Hunter, illustrated by Jolle Jolivet and published in English, French, German and Bangla. Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, her reimagining of the Mahabharata in multiple voices, won the 2015 Tata Literature Live! Award for Book of the Year (Fiction). Her latest book is the collaborative Over and Under Ground in Mumbai & Paris, a travelogue in verse, written with Mumbai-based poet Sampurna Chattarji, and illustrated by Jolle Jolivet and Roshni Vyam. Nar was also the principal scriptwriter of the multiple-award-winning DESH (2011), choreographer Akram Khan's dance solo; its family show-version; Chotto Desh (2015) and Until the Lions, Khan's adaptation of one of the chapters of her book. As a dance enabler, her closest association has been with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet as executive producer of works like Three Spells, Babel (Words), Puz/zle and Les Mduss, and as co-founder of Cherkaoui's company, Eastman.
Back to top↑

More Copies for Sale

Show all copies

Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata

Nair, Karthika

We're sorry, this copy is no longer available.
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
Stock photo: cover may vary

Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata

by Nair, Karthika

  • Used
  • Very good
  • Paperback
Condition
Very good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781939810366 / 1939810361
Quantity available
1
Seller
Orion LLC
Item price
A$8.63
Free Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Archipelago, 2019-11-12. paperback. Very Good. 6x0x8.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$8.63
Free Delivery to USA
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
Stock photo: cover may vary

Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata

by Nair, Karthika

  • Used
  • Very good
  • Paperback
Condition
Very good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781939810366 / 1939810361
Quantity available
1
Seller
Gulf Coast Books
Biblio Top Seller
Item price
A$8.66
Free Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Archipelago, 2019-11-12. paperback. Very Good. 6x0x8.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$8.66
Free Delivery to USA
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata

Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata

by Nair, Karthika

  • Used
  • Very good
  • Paperback
Condition
Very good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781939810366 / 1939810361
Quantity available
1
Seller
ThriftBooks
Biblio Top Seller
Item price
A$9.38
Free Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Archipelago Books, 2019. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$9.38
Free Delivery to USA
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
Stock photo: cover may vary

Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata

by Nair, Karthika

  • Used
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781939810366 / 1939810361
Quantity available
4
Seller
Spellbound
Item price
A$12.28A$11.05
Save A$1.23
Free Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Archipelago, 11/12/2019 12:00:01. paperback. Like New. 1.0630 in x 8.7008 in x 6.8110 in. LIKE NEW!!! Has a red or black remainder mark on bottom/exterior edge of pages.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$12.28A$11.05
Save A$1.23
Free Delivery to USA
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
Stock photo: cover may vary

Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata

by Nair, Karthika

  • Used
  • Very good
  • Paperback
Condition
Very good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781939810366 / 1939810361
Quantity available
1
Seller
Montana Book Company
Biblio Top Seller
Item price
A$12.99
A$5.75 Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2019. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 284 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Remainder mark bottom fore-edge. This copy is a paperback with French flaps. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$12.99
A$5.75 Delivery to USA
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
Stock photo: cover may vary

Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata

by Nair, Karthika

  • Used
  • Paperback
Condition
Used
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781939810366 / 1939810361
Quantity available
1
Seller
Ergodebooks
Item price
A$13.50
Free Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Archipelago Books, 2019-11-12. paperback. Used: Good. 6.76x0.87x8.73. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$13.50
Free Delivery to USA
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
Stock photo: cover may vary

Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata

by NAIR, KARTHIKA

  • New
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781939810366 / 1939810361
Quantity available
1
Seller
Keyes Consulting
Item price
A$14.42
A$5.04 Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Archipelago. New. New and unused. paperback New Ships fast! 2019
Add to wish list
Item price
A$14.42
A$5.04 Delivery to USA
Until the Lions : Echoes from the Mahabharata
Stock photo: cover may vary

Until the Lions : Echoes from the Mahabharata

by Nair, Karthika

  • Used
Condition
Used
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781939810366 / 1939810361
Quantity available
1
Seller
Better World Books
Biblio Top Seller
Item price
A$14.90
Free Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Steerforth Press. Used - Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$14.90
Free Delivery to USA
Until the Lions : Echoes from the Mahabharata
Stock photo: cover may vary

Until the Lions : Echoes from the Mahabharata

by Nair, Karthika

  • Used
Condition
Used
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781939810366 / 1939810361
Quantity available
1
Seller
Better World Books
Biblio Top Seller
Item price
A$14.90
Free Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Steerforth Press. Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$14.90
Free Delivery to USA
Show all copies
Back to top↑

Please wait a moment while we load the requested page.