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  • War of Lanka

  • Ram Chandra, Book 4
  • Written by: Amish Tripathi
  • Narrated by: Darrpan Mehta
  • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (762 ratings)

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Written by: Amish Tripathi
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Publisher's Summary

Lanka will burn. Darkness will perish.

But can light endure?

India, 3400 BCE.

Greed. Rage. Grief. Love. Smouldering tinder, waiting to trigger a war. But this war is different. This one is for Dharma. This war is for the greatest Goddess of them all.

Sita has been kidnapped. Defiantly, she dares Raavan to kill her—she'd rather die than allow Ram to surrender.

Ram is beside himself with grief and rage. He prepares for war. Fury is his fuel. Calm focus, his guide.

Raavan thought he was invincible. He thought he'd negotiate and force a surrender. Little did he know....

The first three books of the second-fastest-selling book series in Indian publishing history—the Ram Chandra series—explore the individual journeys of Ram, Sita and Raavan. In this, the epic fourth book of the series, their narrative strands crash into each other and explode in a slaughterous war.

Will Ram defeat the ruthless and fiendish Raavan, constrained as he is by the laws of Dharma? Will Lanka burn to a cinder or fight back like a cornered tiger? Will the terrible costs of war be worth the victory?

Most importantly, will the Vishnu rise? And will the real enemies of the land fear the Vishnu? For fear is the mother of love.

Contains an exclusive bonus chapter, read by Amish, to recap everything that has happened in the Ramchandra series before War of Lanka.

©2022 Amish Tripathi (P)2022 Audible, Inc.

About the Creator

Amish is a diplomat and author. Amish published his first book in 2010 and has written 10 books (both fiction and non-fiction) till date, including the recently released War of Lanka. His books have sold 6 million copies and been translated into 20 languages. Critics have said that his books are backed by tremendous research, deep thought, a rooted-pride in India, and a liberal progressive outlook. The Week magazine acknowledged Amish as the fastest-selling author in Indian Publishing history. Forbes India has regularly ranked him among the top 100 most influential celebrities in India. Amish was also selected as an Eisenhower Fellow, a prestigious American programme for outstanding leaders from around the world, in 2014. He won the 21st Century Icon Award in the UK in 2021 and the Golden Book award for his novel Suheldev in 2022. He is also a host for TV documentaries, including for Discovery TV’s highly acclaimed Legends of the Ramayan with Amish. He has taken over as the Minister (Culture) at the Indian High Commission in the UK and the Director of The Nehru Centre in London in October 2019. Amish is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta (he was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIM – Calcutta in 2017). He worked for 14 years in the financial services industry before turning to full-time writing.

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Poor story and bad sounds and narration

Firat of all, the story was quite poorly written in terms of both plot and details. Too many unrelated facts being spouted out and repeated ideas from previous book related to the war.

Then the narration was equally poor. The narrator wasn't good at differentiating voices for characters and pronounced some words very incorrectly like "corpse" instead of corps. Then they added these background audio that was too loud at times and inappropriate at other times like unnecessary torture sounds and a constant background bird calls

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Expected better than this.

Expectations from Amish is too high.This book is good overall but I felt something is missing.He has not utilized some of the characters like Indrajeet and Hanuman. It seems like in an attemt to sumup the war story in just one book it loses the detailing at some parts of the book.This is giving the same feeling like the last season of GOT.

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Ram series is not that well written.

I don’t this Ram series didn’t touch the core of my heart.
Detailed but not worth reading or listening.

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narration and audio quality is great. book isn't

narration and audio quality is great
but, even i am amish fan but content in book is not up to the mark. author twisted ramayan that level. soul is missing from ramayana

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Crap Story and crappier Audio Book

The story is extremely bad. Meluha was good and this one is just trying to cash in on the reputation of Meluha. The audio effects in the audio books just make the experience bad. It wud have been tolerable if there were no Audio effects.

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Excellent narration, average story

It feels like the shiva trilogy set a standard that this series sadly couldn’t achieve

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Very dissapointing

The author completely ruined the story of Ramayan. The author deveated a lot from the Ramayan and the stroy is in favour of Ravana. The author has liberty. But this too much boasting made me irriated each time while listening

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A new interpretation of the classic

I recently talked to a friend who said he watched Adipurush because it is the story of Ram, how can it be not inspiring..? And oh man.. they.. well you know what I want to say.. The story of Ram. A character, a man, a god... A man born into a royal family, who was not loved by his stepmother, has been banished for 14 years, his wife kidnapped, has to fight a monster to rescue his wife... and despite the difficulties in his life,fe he chose the right path... He followed the Dharma...

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very poor production for an amazing story

The environmental sound effects over powers narration. Narration isn't that good either. Narrator of the previous title shouldn't have been replaced and sometimes imagination and narration can make more impact than produced effects. This book needed a heartfelt narration without gimmicks. Destroyed a good book.VERY DISAPPOINTED

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A big letdown, especially after having listened to Raavan recently

It feels like someone else has written this book. The writing seems immature in places. The audio quality is terrible. There is a sort of white noise running continuously in the background. Missing the voice of Sagar Arya on this one.

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