St Suniti and the Dragon
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1875559183
ISBN-13
9781875559183
Publisher
Spinifex Press
Imprint
Spinifex Press
Country of Manufacture
AU
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 1st, 1993
Print length
126 Pages
Weight
194 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 13.10 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Myth & legend told as fiction
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An extended fable. The central theme of this book, of how to live decently and honourably in a cruel and irrational world, is explored through concepts of sainthood, love, and the anticipation of death.
Once she had reconciled herself to the view that a garden snake, however beautiful, was not evil, Suniti decided to set about the matter in a more businesslike way. She put an ad in the paper: ‘Elderly gentlewoman seeks to make a bargain with the devil’. Where are good and evil to be found? What is the path to sainthood? Is it through poetry or good deeds? St Suniti talks to angels and flowers, dragons, saints and ordinary people in her quest. Suniti Namjoshi has original imagination full of surprises encompassing saints and wolves, Beowulf and Bangladesh, Grendel and Star Trek.‘It’s hilarious, witty, elegantly written, hugely inventive, fantastic, energetic, up to the minute, analytic, touching…
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