The Flight of the Mermaid

Text by Gita Wolf and Sirish Rao Art by Bhajju Shyam Retaining the fabular quality of the original Andersen story, this poetic version of the mermaid’s tale takes place in a tribal cosmos, where the human is never isolated from the rest of nature. The worlds of water, land and air are intertwined, as the mermaid struggles to find a place for herself as a human being. The Flight of the Mermaid is a feminist parable on the warring claims of love and choice.