Victory City
By Salman Rushdie
Fiction/Random House/Paperback/352 pages/$29.95/Books Kinokuniya
4 stars
The Ramayana begins with the sage-poet Valmiki witnessing a hunter shoot a pair of birds. This violence shakes him so deeply that he cries out in the lyrical metre with which he would compose the 24,000 verses telling the story of Rama.
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