Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and
poet. She has been published in over 50 magazines and her
writing has been included in over 50 anthologies.

The Palace of Illusions takes us back to the time of the Indian epic The Mahabharat—a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical. Through her narrator Panchaali, the wife of the legendary five Pandava brothers, Divakaruni gives us a rare feminist interpretation of an epic story.