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The Great American Novel

The Great American Novel

Mallya, Akshay

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ISBN13: 9798271541995
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 25 2025
Pages: 542
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Based on The Mahābhārata, The Great American Novel reimagines the timeless war of inheritance, loyalty, and fate within the skyscraper canyons of modern New York. In Akshay Mallya's sweeping epic of power and blood, the House of Caine-a dynasty of financiers, visionaries, and traitors-rises from the glint of Wall Street and descends into its own civil war.

From the secret birth of a forbidden heir in the 1970s to the boardroom battles of billion-dollar empires decades later, the saga unfolds across generations of the Caine family-each driven by pride, ambition, and the ghosts of their fathers. At its heart stand Josh Caine, the measured reformer who seeks redemption through order, and Dan Caine, the ruthless patriarch's son who believes destiny belongs to the strong. Between them lies Caleb-the outcast born of betrayal-whose very existence challenges the foundations of the empire that disowned him.

Mallya writes with the precision of a scalpel and the grandeur of scripture, merging Wall Street realism with the fatal symmetry of ancient tragedy. The result is both intimate and immense-a story of empires built on numbers and undone by the human heart.

The Great American Novel is not merely a story of wealth and ruin-it is the Mahābhārata reborn in the age of capitalism: a meditation on duty, identity, and the price of greatness in a world where the gods have been replaced by markets, and every empire must eventually face its reckoning.

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