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Red Earth and Pouring Rain

by Vikram Chandra

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ISBN13: 9780316132930
ISBN10: 0316132934
Condition: Standard
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Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain is an unforgettable reading experience, a contemporary Thousand and One Nights — with an eighteenth-century warrior-poet (now reincarnated as a typewriting monkey) and an Indian student home from college in America switching off as our Scheherazades. Ranging from bloody battles in colonial India to college anomie in California, from Hindu gods to MTV, Chandra's novel is engrossing, enthralling, impossible to put down — a remarkable meditation on quests and homecomings, good and evil, storytelling and redemption.

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"[An] astonishing and brilliant debut." Publishers Weekly

Review:

"As each story leads to another, Chandra's multifaceted narrative spins and whirls as hectically and alluringly as a kaleidoscope, leaving us a bit dazed if impressed." Booklist

About the Author

Vikram Chandra divides his time between Mumbai and Berkeley, where he teaches at the University of California. His work has been translated into eleven languages.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780316132930
Author:
Chandra, Vikram
Publisher:
Back Bay Books
Location:
Boston :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Young men
Subject:
Storytelling
Subject:
Monkeys -- Fiction.
Subject:
Human-animal relationships -- India -- Fiction.
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st paperback ed.
Publication Date:
March 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
560
Dimensions:
8.41x5.30x1.48 in. 1.08 lbs.

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