There can be no peace with the Pandavas now. No hope of conciliation. We're doomed to kill over cousins or die in the attempt.' It is the tenth night of the great war between the Pandavas and the Kaurvas. Bhishma, the venerable patriarch of the families, lies fatally wounded on the plains of Kurukshetra. On his deathbed he offers Radheya, his nemesis, a chance to rule the Kuru kingdom by capturing Yudhisthira. in the Pandava camp, Yudhisthira, a reluctant warrior, tries desperately to hold his allies together and escape capture without appearing to be a coward. Meanwhile, his young and impulsive nephew, Abhimanyu, a warrior prince, dreams of glory and yearns for a chance to save the Pandavas cause and when the lives of these three warriors-Yudhisthira, Radheya a Abhimanyu-collide brutally on the thirteenth day, history is irrivocable changed. Reimagining India's greatest epic like never before, The Thirteenth Day reveals how stories are created, how fact becomes fiction, how history becomes mythology and how men become legends.

Publisher: Rupa Publications India

Author: Aditya Iyengar

Pages: 260

ISBN: 9788129134752

Publication Date: 15 June 2015