In This Poetic New Novel, An Ancient Form Of Dance Frees A Modern Storyteller
Shruti Swamy has won awards for her short fiction; The Archer, her debut novel, is a coming-of-age tale inspired by the graceful, precise storytelling of India's ancient Kathak dance form.
To witness a performance of , the ancient classical dance native to North India, is to enter a realm not only of movement, music, rhythm and grace, but also of , where dance becomes a device for recounting epic tales from Hindu scripture. And so it is when entering the mesmerizingly poetic world Shruti Swamy creates in her new novel, , which follows a young girl as she discovers the enchantment of Kathak
