I also thank goodness times have changed and that we can actually question things that aren’t fair. And if that keeps going on around you for years, you start believing it to be true. That’s because you tend to accept what is taught to you as a child. If I had been born back then (maybe I had, who knows?), I probably would have taken it as it was even if I saw the unfairness of it all. I thanked goodness I wasn’t born then.īut another thought struck me through this all. Thus it was decreed that they should only support the men in their family if they didn’t want shame to befall them and their entire clan. Women were treated as people who shouldn’t take part in world affairs. The first thing that I acknowledged when I started reading The Palace of Illusions was the fact that times were different during the epics.
Or it would have taken a further long while for me to pick it up.
Never mind that it was for a challenge that I did this. So it was with the hope that I’d come to love it that I picked it up and started reading it. Maybe because it was based on the Mahabharata, an epic that I wasn’t too familiar with as against the Ramayana. For some reason, this book intimidated me. It's gorgeous, surreal, and haunting.The Palace of Illusions, like so many other books, had been on my list for a long time. Peter Brooks directed a 1989 film adaptation of The Mahabhrata as a TV miniseries. Panchaali is a fiery female redefining for us a world of warriors, gods, and the ever-manipulating hands of fate. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her strategic duels with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy.
Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India. The novel traces the princess Panchaali's life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father’s kingdom. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancient tale. Relevant to today’s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat-told from the point of view of an amazing woman.
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