When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others

Bys: Ramanujan, A. K., Narayana Rao, Velcheru, Shulman, David

Book Overview

How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520080696
• ISBN13: 9780520080690
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

If I could turn back time...

When God is a Customer is a delightful journey to another time and culture and while reading, makes you wish you could be part of that period. Readers and lovers of western poetry will be enthralled by the use of language and device however; consciousness of these become lost in the humour, passion, colour, tenderness and eroticism of life expressed by the 'women' (the poems infact are written by males taking on the female voice). I loved this book and carry it with me. The editors have provided an invaluable treasure to cross-cultural literature and the everyday poetry reader and I thank them for their insight and trust that this work will be valued by westerners. More please.