I Am Om

Dr. Veena Damle has taken her own background as a medical doctor and as an Indian to recreate the central myths of the Hindu religion, making them and a slice of India accessible to westerners in a way that, say, Aesop made the Greek moral tradition accessible to the following generations of non-Greeks. In this novel, we follow a Hindu family of two physicians, their daughter Manju, and her grandfather Azoba through a mounting crisis of infidelity and greed. The home crisis is echoed by the grandfather's retelling of The Mahabharata, especially Arjun's war against his own family. Damle's deceptively simple prose combines lyrical with narrative to echo her meshing of Western and non-Western traditions. Manju and Azoba are a granddaughter-grandfather team you won't forget.Damle, Veena is the author of 'I Am Om' with ISBN 9780942979794 and ISBN 0942979796.