Tiger Moon
Antonia Michaelis
How does a story of India begin? Does it begin with the three great rivers—the Ganges, the Yamuna, the unseen Sarasvati pouring her dreaming waters down from the snowy mountains to the hot, dry plain? This bewitching story within a story, set in magical India, explores the power of narrative to change the course of lives. Raka, the doomed young bride of a violent merchant, weaves a tale of rescue so vivid, it might just come true. She tells a servant boy the story of Farhad, a thief and unlikely hero, who must retrieve a famous jewel in order to save a kidnapped princess from a demon king. Farhad’s unforgettable companion on the journey is a wisecracking white tiger with an unnatural fear of water. It is their unusual and funny friendship, and the final sacrifice that they must make, that is the heart of this grand, beautiful novel about summoning the hero within.F&P level: Z+ F&P genre: F
Reviews
This is an amazingly dangerous adventure and a bit of fantasy about a poor thief boy who meets the hindu god Krishna and has to travel through various cities in India, through scorching deserts and through a flooded river Ganges in order to complete Krishna's impossibly hard task : to save his daughter - a princess who has been captured by the hindu demon Ravana and desperate to be rescued . One of the best parts of this story book is that the boy rides a sacred white tiger ( called Nitish - Lord of the Right way ). And it is sometimes hilarious because the tiger is scared of water as Krishna has said to him However, in the end, the 'salty fluid of life' turns out to be a tear which is dropped by Fahrad Kamal ( the hero ) and they did not know that until they crossed river Ganges and Nitish touched the water and did not turn to stone so they were very puzzled and confused after that.. It is so incredible that I would truly recommend it to all readers as this is (in my opinion) the best Ive read in my life.
Anonymous 20.08.2018
