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This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse-artist relationship as few works of fiction have done, this novel is an intensely political work.

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“A singular, absorbing book.” —The New Yorker

“As delicately phrased as a prose poem. . . . A parable that opposes the pride and power of the state to the slow resistance of human life.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Cecile Pineda is a writer of the utmost artistic integrity.” —J. M. Coetzee, author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

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      Publisher: Wings Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/04/2007
      ISBN13: 9780930324919, 978-0930324919
      ISBN10: 0930324919

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      Book Synopsis
      This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse-artist relationship as few works of fiction have done, this novel is an intensely political work.

      Trade Review
      “A singular, absorbing book.” —The New Yorker

      “As delicately phrased as a prose poem. . . . A parable that opposes the pride and power of the state to the slow resistance of human life.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

      “Cecile Pineda is a writer of the utmost artistic integrity.” —J. M. Coetzee, author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

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