The Fourth Wife
Telling Ajatasattu’s Story
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Vanessa R. Sasson
Drawing on her deep knowledge of Buddhist sources, Sasson presents Ajatasattu’s story as a great human tragedy that reflects the fundamental teachings of the Buddhist Dharma. She tells Ajatasattu’s story through the eyes of a fictional fourth wife, a vantage point that also enables the reader to imagine what women’s lives may have been like during the time of the historical Buddha. Sasson confronts the reader with painfully contemporary questions of how to live with tyranny, how to reckon with intergenerational trauma, and how to face the inevitability of karma. Her prose renders the ancient world with vivid emotional depth.
The book opens with a short introduction focused on the role of storytelling in Buddhist history. It then follows with the narrative retelling of Ajatasattu’s story, and ends with extensive endnotes that provide readers with a window into how Sasson drew on the classical sources, how the sources relate to each other, and give readers the tools required to reconstruct a story that belongs to ancient India.
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Vanessa R. Sasson’s The Fourth Wife is a brilliant Buddhist retelling of an ancient story, and one I could not stop reading. This is captivating drama, filled with intrigue, richly painted and artfully conceived
Sasson brings early Buddhist history to life in this captivating retelling of Ajatasattu, the Magadhan king infamous for having imprisoned his father to take the throne. Drawing on her deep knowledge of Buddhist sources, Sasson presents Ajatasattu’s story as a great human tragedy that reflects the fundamental teachings of the Buddhist Dharma. She tells Ajatasattu’s story through the eyes of a fictional fourth wife, a vantage point that also enables the reader to imagine what women’s lives may have been like during the time of the historical Buddha.
In a beautiful retelling of the story of Ajatasattu, the brutal king who meets the
Buddha himself, Sasson confronts the reader with painfully contemporary questions
of how to live with tyranny, how to reckon with intergenerational trauma, and how
to face the inevitability of karma. Her prose renders the ancient world with vivid
emotional depth, a narrative skill reminiscent of Elif Shafak.
Buddha himself, Sasson confronts the reader with painfully contemporary questions
of how to live with tyranny, how to reckon with intergenerational trauma, and how
to face the inevitability of karma. Her prose renders the ancient world with vivid
emotional depth, a narrative skill reminiscent of Elif Shafak.
Sasson has done it again! The Fourth Wife takes an influential Buddhist story and
makes it accessible to anyone with an interest in Buddhism, gender, and/or families
by perfectly blending historical context with compelling narrative.
makes it accessible to anyone with an interest in Buddhism, gender, and/or families
by perfectly blending historical context with compelling narrative.
At once fanciful and research-driven, The Fourth Wife is a lush and moving narrative
account of life in ancient India. Sasson provokes a pathway of inquiry, revealing
different ways to think about traditional stories and inviting new voices to tell them.
account of life in ancient India. Sasson provokes a pathway of inquiry, revealing
different ways to think about traditional stories and inviting new voices to tell them.
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