Sacred Games
The author of Love and Longing in Bombay and Red Earth and Pouring Rain devoted seven years to writing this 900-page novel. Sacred Games unfolds in the most profane precincts of Mumbai, trailing Sartaj Singh, a cynical Sikh police inspector, and Ganesh Gaitonde, a famed, ruthless criminal as they...
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The author of Love and Longing in Bombay and Red Earth and Pouring Rain devoted seven years to writing this 900-page novel. Sacred Games unfolds in the most profane precincts of Mumbai, trailing Sartaj Singh, a cynical Sikh police inspector, and Ganesh Gaitonde, a famed, ruthless criminal as they dance out threads of pursuit and betrayal. Gaitonde's rise to the highest echelons of Indian organized crime grants him admission into realms of Bollywood glamour and respectable wealth. Despite such stratospheric connections, his saga remains rooted in the sights and sounds of modern India. Long anticipated; worth the wait.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061130366 (0061130362)
Publish date: December 18th 2007
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 992
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Asia,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime
I'd seen this around a lot, liked the cover, knew nothing about it. Found it for extra cheap, took a look and... crime novel, Dickensian epic saga, AND the author lists some of his favorite Bollywood movies in the back? Yes!
WOW. What a book! It's over 900pp long! It's as overwhelming and complex and befuddling as Bharat itself is, for an uninitiated Murrikin tourist.It's also fabuolously, gorgeously wrought, and very much worthy of being a bestseller. It never will be, for several reasons.First: It has, and needs, a gl...
I really enjoyed most of the novel. And then the sewing up of loose edges and the overexplaining of every last detail ensued. Maybe I would have really loved it if it had been edited a little more. Maybe if it lost a few pounds and pages.
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