Sitayana

Countless retellings translations and reworkings of the Ramayana's captivating story exist-but none are as vivid ingenious and powerful as Amit Majmudar's Sitayana. Majmudar tells the story of one of the world's most popular epics through multiple perspectives presented in rapid sequence-from Hanuman and Ravana down to even the squirrel helping Rama's army build the bridge.However above all Majmudar focuses on the fierce resistance of Sita letting us hear her voice as we have never heard it before. About the Author AMIT MAJMUDAR is a diagnostic nuclear radiologist who lives in Westerville Ohio with his wife and three children. He is the author of three volumes of poetry most recentlyDothead. His first collection0° 0° was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award his secondHeaven and Earth was selected for the 2011 Donald Justice Prize. His work has appeared in theNew York TimesNew YorkerBest of the Best American Poetry and many other publications including the eleventh edition ofThe Norton Introduction to Literature. He blogs for theKenyon Review and is also a critically acclaimed novelist.