Read A Woman of Angkor - Books Library

A Woman of Angkor

John Burgess

4.9/5 (20507 ratings)

Description:"Pure and beautiful, she glows like the moon behind clouds." The time is the 12th Century, the place Cambodia, birthplace of the lost Angkor civilisation. In a village behind a towering stone temple lives a young woman named Sray, whom neighbors liken to the heroine of a Hindu epic. Hiding a dangerous secret, she is content with quiet obscurity, but one rainy season afternoon is called to a life of prominence in the royal court. There her faith and loyalties are tested by attentions from the great king Suryavarman II. Her husband Nol, palace confidante and master of the silk parasols that were symbols of the monarch's rank, struggles to keep her devotion.This lovingly crafted first novel by former Washington Post correspondent John Burgess revives the rites and rhythms of the ancient culture that built the temples of Angkor, then abandoned them to the jungle. In telling her tale, Sray takes the reader to a hilltop monastery, a concubine pavilion and across the seas to the throne room of imperial China. She witnesses the construction of the largest of the temples, Angkor Wat, and offers an explanation for its greatest mystery--why it broke with centuries of tradition to face west instead of east.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Woman of Angkor. To get started finding A Woman of Angkor, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 500

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: River Books

Release: 2013

ISBN

Description: "Pure and beautiful, she glows like the moon behind clouds." The time is the 12th Century, the place Cambodia, birthplace of the lost Angkor civilisation. In a village behind a towering stone temple lives a young woman named Sray, whom neighbors liken to the heroine of a Hindu epic. Hiding a dangerous secret, she is content with quiet obscurity, but one rainy season afternoon is called to a life of prominence in the royal court. There her faith and loyalties are tested by attentions from the great king Suryavarman II. Her husband Nol, palace confidante and master of the silk parasols that were symbols of the monarch's rank, struggles to keep her devotion.This lovingly crafted first novel by former Washington Post correspondent John Burgess revives the rites and rhythms of the ancient culture that built the temples of Angkor, then abandoned them to the jungle. In telling her tale, Sray takes the reader to a hilltop monastery, a concubine pavilion and across the seas to the throne room of imperial China. She witnesses the construction of the largest of the temples, Angkor Wat, and offers an explanation for its greatest mystery--why it broke with centuries of tradition to face west instead of east.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Woman of Angkor. To get started finding A Woman of Angkor, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

A Woman of Angkor

A Woman of Angkor

More Books

Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crime by Douglas, John, Burgess, Ann W., Burgess, Allen G., Ressler, (2013) Paperback

Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crime by Douglas, John, Burgess, Ann W., Burgess, Allen G., Ressler, (2013) Paperback

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Philosophical Logic

Philosophical Logic

A Pastoral Rule for Today: Reviving an Ancient Practice

A Pastoral Rule for Today: Reviving an Ancient Practice

Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives

Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives

Holy Rus': The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia

Holy Rus': The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia

A Subject With No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics

A Subject With No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics

Kripke

Kripke