Love and Longing in Bombay
On the heels of his award-winning and extravagantly praised first novel, RED EARTH AND POURING RAIN, Vikram Chandra offers five ingeniously linked stories--a love story, a mystery, a ghost story, and other tales spun by an elusive narrator sitting in a smoky Bombay bar. Critics around the world...
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On the heels of his award-winning and extravagantly praised first novel, RED EARTH AND POURING RAIN, Vikram Chandra offers five ingeniously linked stories--a love story, a mystery, a ghost story, and other tales spun by an elusive narrator sitting in a smoky Bombay bar. Critics around the world have embraced the book as a major work by this exciting young writer.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316136778 (0316136778)
Publish date: October 1st 1998
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Asia,
Short Stories,
Short Story Collection
I wish I could write a review that did this book - my feelings for this book - any kind of justice. The pace in the stories is slow but it is right for the human characters and for discovering them. Each story is full of necessary detail, is of human scale, our messy, imperfect beautiful lives. Chan...
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