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In Book 2 Ashoka is portrayed not just as an emperor but as a conflicted individual, which helps readers emotionally connect with his transformation. The depiction and the narrative is engaging.

It’s a history book as the name already suggests…but it is one of the best history book that I have read. So well translated…
Book 1 of this chunky text sets the background of Ashoka’s personality before the Kalinga War. He is known here to be strict, fierce and does not shy away from war…

Got into it thinking let’s see what it offers. 15 pages into it got me thinking oh! It’s a love story… 70 more pages in and I cried… and then cried again later.

Awe. Astonishment. Seeing how many psychiatrists and psychologists don’t believe in the Dissociative Personality Disorder or Multiple Personality Disorder or Split Personality Disorder. This book sure gives a detailed and sound account of the events. Barely been able to put it down.

Horrific. Simply horrific.

This is my third time reading this novel and I cannot explain why ilike this, so much.

I had to stop at so many points. I couldn’t… It’s so unnerving yet at the same time so profound life and death. You just simply cannot put it into a compartment.

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Captivating. Simply captivating.

Cannot keep it down. It’s astounding and gripping. The way it is written or translated it didn’t leave its touch. The urdu words here and there are like a touch of something sweet in sour candy.