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Lace not far from the royal palace a battle which she is not permitted to join a battle where she will lose her king Foregrounding certain episodes from the vast tapestry of the epic the novel develops new narrative variations that feed back into the classical text with freshly imagined materialExceptionally well written highly original inherently fascinating 'The ueen's Play' is a riveting novel Midwest Book Revie.
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One of the two formative epics of ancient IndiaThe cursory mention of a chess like game in the Ramayana lore offers interesting parallels and openings between the game and the themes of the epic poem At the centre of it is a ueen first entering and then growing from strength to strength to become the most powerful piece on the board inventing a game which closely parallels the epic battle taking p.
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In the second age of the world a time of prehistory a time of myth Mandodari ueen of the demon king Ravana invents chess to carve out a role for herself in a world where male martial virtues are paramount As a chess player she can play at warfare; as ueen she can be the most potent warrior on the battlefield The ueen's Play attempts to write the origin of chess into the narrative cycles of the Ramayana.
The ueen’s Play is a book for people who love chess I learned to play with my father who always beat me in strategic ways so that I became a better player I used to win a fair bit when I played with other people
A masterfully written story retelling myth through rich multilayered language that is hard to escape