Ka (Penguin Modern Classics)

'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful' The New York Times

'Who?' - or 'ka' -is the question that runs through Roberto Calasso's retelling of thestories of the minds and gods of India; the primordial question thatcontinues to haunt human existence. From the Rigveda to the Upanishads, the Mahabharata tothe life of Buddha, this book delves into the corpus of classicalSanskrit literature to re-imagine the ancient Indian myths and how theyresonate through space and time.

'The very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written' Wendy Doniger

'Dazzling, complex, utterly original ... Ka is his masterpiece' Sunday Times

Reviews

All is spectacle and delight, and tiny mirrors reflecting human foibles are set into the weave, turning this retelling into the stuff of literature ... Calasso's erudition and his capacity for invention appear to be limitless