Pakṣikā’s Fall: The Finding

A small bird falls to the bottom of the world and is taught, at a fire that should not burn, to read the old language. The sentences are no harder than the ones before — what has changed is the reader.

The same words, met again, now read as one breath instead of many. Sandhi joins what was separate. Two words hold a whole storm. The first whole stories in Sanskrit prose — and the fire at the centre of them has been waiting since the night the cub first fell.

Watership Down meets Siddhartha — and it teaches you Sanskrit as you read.

Written and illustrated by Mateo Rose.

Forthcoming — in its season

Each book complete on its own.