Ambapali: A Novel - Softcover

Podder, Tanushree

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143459430 ISBN 13: 9780143459439

Publisher: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

Not every courtesan has gone down in the annals of history like Ambapali. She was beautiful, intelligent, talented and, as the nagarvadhu janpad kalyani-the bride of the city-she went on to wield immense power amongst the nobles. Until she renounced all worldly pleasures to embrace Buddhism.This vivid narrative tells the story of a young woman forced to follow a path because of the machinations of powerful people. Propelled onto the cultural centerstage in the Vajji republic against her wishes, betrayed in love, disappointed by friends.

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About the Author

Tanushree Podder is a well-known travel writer and novelist. She has written several non-fiction books before moving to fiction, and has now published sixteen novels. Her books include Nur Jahan's Daughter, Boots Belts Berets, On the Double, Escape from Harem, Solo in Singapore, A Closetful of Skeletons, Before You Breathe, No Margin for Error, The Teenage Diary of Rani Laxmibai, The Girls in Green, Spooky Stories and An Invitation to Die. Ambapali is her seventeenth novel. Three of her books, Boots Belts Berets, A Closetful of Skeletons, and The Girls in Green, are being adapted into web series is a well-known travel writer and novelist. She has written several non-fiction books before moving to fiction, and has now published sixteen novels.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143459430
• ISBN 13: 9780143459439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312