About the Book: Demons Daughter: A Love Story From South India
The Demons Daughter is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet
Pingali Suranna, originally written in Telugu. Suranna begins with a story from
classical Hindu mythology in which a demon plans to overthrow the gods. Krishnas
son Pradyumna is sent to foil the plot and must infiltrate the impregnable city
of the demons; Krishna helps ensure his success by having a matchmaking goose
cause Pradyumna to fall in love with the demons daughter. The original story
focuses on the ongoing war between gods and anti-gods, but Pingali Suranna makes
it an exploration of the experience