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-a parable that pits the blind cruelty of a feudal ruler against the creative expression of a single slave.
- ISBN10 0595091636
- ISBN13 9780595091638
- Publish Date 1 May 2000 (first published 27 November 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint iUniverse
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 200
- Language English