{"product_id":"the-burden-of-foreknowledge","title":"The Burden of Foreknowledge","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Jawahara Saidullah\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: IndiaInk\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2006\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 178\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8186939318\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 16th century India, when Nadee is swept away by the raging Yamuna, her life itself becomes a journey. A journey that takes her from her devastated village, Zameerpur, to the burning ghats of Kashi, to the courts of Agra and then on to the city of dreams, Fatehpur-Sikri. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven as her life intertwines with history, barriers between the future and the past, the dead and the living break down until they become indistinguishable. In Akbar’s Hindustan, Nadee is the eternal wanderer and soothsayer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe is doomed to love Kashi’s unattainable King of the Dead, the Dom Raja, to serve the legendary courtesan, Chhappan Chhoori, and then the almost mythical emperor, Akbar. When her newborn son, the legacy of her love, disappears, she slides further into madness and despair as she searches desperately for her one link to herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNadee is blindingly aware of her destiny, though she remains powerless to change it. The Burden of Foreknowledge is a story that traces an unusual life, a life that brushes against greatness but remains inexorably trained towards its own ultimate fate. As the boundaries between reality and fantasy collide, the story reaches its climactic conclusion in the abandoned and desolate city of dreams, when Nadee finally achieves what has been predestined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChanging Course\u003cbr\u003eKashi: City of the Dead\u003cbr\u003eGanga: River of Stories\u003cbr\u003eRedemption\u003cbr\u003eHouse of Culture\u003cbr\u003eLessons Unlearned\u003cbr\u003eEleven Stairs\u003cbr\u003eChhappan Chhoori: Fifty-Six Knives\u003cbr\u003eAndaliib-e-Jahan: Nightingale of the World\u003cbr\u003eYamuna: River of Secrets\u003cbr\u003eInvisible\u003cbr\u003eSecret Victories\u003cbr\u003eChild of Dreams\u003cbr\u003eMarble and Alabaster\u003cbr\u003eMother and Child\u003cbr\u003eNo questions\u003cbr\u003eTorrent of Dreams\u003cbr\u003eRetribution\u003cbr\u003eCity of Ghosts\u003cbr\u003eNadee: River of Life\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Jawahara Saidullah \/ IndiaInk \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153810354544,"sku":"19894","price":24.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/19894.jpg?v=1793914389","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-burden-of-foreknowledge","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}