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If you enjoy reading poetry that is easy to read, is full of fun and rhymes wonderfully you need to flip through Vikram Seth`s `Beastly Tales From Here and There.`
Better known as the author of such well known works as "A Suitable Boy` and `An Equal Music`, these poems are a joy to read. They are a collection of 10 story- poems . As Vikram himself mentions in the introduction, Of the ten tales told here, the first two come from India, the next two from China, the next two from Greece , and the next two from Ukraine. The final two came directly to me from the Land of Gup."
As the title suggests, Beastly Tales are stories about our animal friends written in verse. You will find Kuroop, the crocodile who lives in the Ganges and his friend the monkey and the age old story of the hare and the tortoise ingeniously retold. There is the amazing tale of the Elephant and the Trangopan and the battle royale between the snake and the mouse and may more.
Vikram Seth wrote these tales, `because it was very hot in my house one day and I could not concentrate on my work." What emerged on that hot summer afternoon was a collection of immensely readable tales written in verse. Vivid imagery , brilliant verse and lots of humour make this an extremely readable book.
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