Ka

If you want a dazzling, complex, erotic and utterly original European novel of ideas, Calasso is your man, and Ka his masterpiece

Sunday Times

To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful ... these stories are superbly narrated

Sunil Khilnani, New York Times Book Review

Passage[s] of such ecstatic insight and cross-cultural synthesis-simply, of such beauty

The New York Review of Books

The very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written ... A magnificent reading of Hindu texts. Its power arises in part through strong, vivid writing and in part through stunning, unexpected metaphors

Wendy Doniger, The New Republic

Magnificent ... A moving, exhilarating, extraordinary book ... An astonishing synthesis of myths and legends, philosophical inquiry, and speculative narrative

Shashi Tharoor, Washington Post Book World

A scintillatingly challenging book ... Its opening sentences are as startling as any in all of literature

Thomas McGonigle, Los Angeles Times

All is spectacle and delight, and tiny mirrors reflecting human foibles are set into the weave, turning this retelling into the stuff of literature ... Calasso's erudition and his capacity for invention appear to be limitless

The New Yorker