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Sivagamiyin Sabadham (2000)

by Kalki(Favorite Author)
4.33 of 5 Votes: 2
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review 1: 'சிவகாமியின் சபதம் ' என் மனம் கவர்ந்த கல்கியாரின் படைப்பு இம்முறையும் அவர் என்னை ஏமாற்றவில்லை.என்னை ஏழாம் நூற்றாண்டுக்கே இழுத்து சென்று விட்டார் .அங்கே மகேந்திரரின் ராஜா தந்திரங்களையும் போர் யுக்திகளையும் ,பரஞ்சோதியின் விசுவாசத்தையும் ,மாமல்லரின் வீரத்தையும் ,சிவகாமியின் அபிநயங்களை�... more�ும் ,ஆயனாரின் சிற்ப கலைகளையும் ,புலிகேசியின் வக்கிரத்தையும் ,மாமல்லபுரத்தின் சிற்பங்களையும் பார்க்கும் படி செய்தும் .அஜந்தாவின் வர்ண ரகசியத்தை தெரிந்து கொள்ளும் படி செய்த கல்கியாருக்கு எவ்வளவு நன்றி செலுத்தினாலும் ஈடாகாது .
review 2: I read an English translation of this novel by P.S.Sri, published by Sahitya Akademi in 2008 in hardcover. The quality of the publication sucks. First of all, the binding is poor and the pages come out even if you turn them once. Then, some of the pages are not in order and are bound in random order. The translation itself is poor. It seems like a literal translation of Tamil idioms and metaphors into English with no regard for contextual explanation or changes to appropriate English phrases. Grammar mistakes abound. A baby deer is called a 'deer calf' instead of a fawn. All this makes it look like someone with a minimal knowledge of english did the translating. There appears to have been no editing or proofreading whatsoever before publishing the book. Lots of spelling errors and botched sentences are seen. The word processor used to typeset the pages has substituted some uncommon words with words of it's own choice and no one has corrected these errors. For example, name of a character beginning with J has been replaced with Joanne. What is someone called Joanne doing in a novel set in 7th century India? This happens because MS Word automatically detects unfamiliar words, takes them to be mistakes and replaces them with words from it's own dictionary. The publishers couldn't even bother to correct these elementary errors. In spite of all the above, I enjoyed the novel immensely; hence the four stars. Just stat away from this edition! less
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ClaireJ
Good to read after partiban kanavu. it hearts a lot when reading about the war...
gertje
I really liked it. Really a good novel.
deliphone
Great book. I enjoyed it a lot.
Valedltorre
suckss
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