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Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nBook design by Maria Carella  \nPhoto of peacock feather by Siede Preis/Photodisc/Getty Images  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956–  \nThe palace of illusions : a novel / Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni.—1st ed. [p. cm](p. cm).  \nRetelling of the Mahabharata.  \n1. India—History—To 324 B.C.—Fiction. I. 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