Author: Griffin Ondaatje
Editor(s): Griffin Ondaatje
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 274
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172236409
Description
Through Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim tales, this collection celebrates the centuries-old tradition of storytelling. Readers of all ages will enjoy these richly imaginative and inspiring stories that speak of animal kings and flying elephants, monks, thieves and gods.
Colourful, funny and intriguingly subtle in their moral and spiritual instruction, these tales are just as entertaining and relevant as they were in their ancient from.
REVIEW
Stories by their very nature, resist being captured and owned by any one culture, race or nation, some stories are especially fond of traveling, and these are the ones chosen for this volume. They speak to our common needs as human beings, our Loneliness, our fear, our love and our ability to find the universe funny.
-Graeme Macqueen
>From the foreword to Scarless Face & Other Stories.
Contents
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Monkey King
How the Landlord Went to Heaven
Brighter Still
Lord Krishna and Kaliya
The Chola King
The Resting Hill
The Deer, the Tortoise and the Kaerala Bird
Water Under a Rock
Two Friends by the Villu
The Vulture
The Hopper
The Dog Who Drank from Socks
Narada’s Lesson
Power Misused
The Unicorn and the Grapevine
Kundalini
Scarless Face
The Cycle of Revenge
The Monkey and the Crocodile
Garuda and the Snake
Just Like the Rest
The Rupee
Is the River Asleep?
Hanuman and Sita
Angulimala
Two Stories of Andare the Court Jester
The Road to Butterfly Mountain
A Changed Snake
Akbar and Birbal
Mouthful of Pearls
The Camel Who Cried in the Sun
How the Gods and Demons Learned to Play Together
The Great Journey
Fate and Fortune
Tell It to the Walls
GLOSSARY
NOTES ON THE RETELLINGS
ON WORLD LITERACY OF CANADA