Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India

This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades'' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time a wealth of folktales from a region that has not yet been adequately represented in world literatur...