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More copies of this ISBN:Love and Longing in Bombay: Storiesby Vikram Chandra
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From the acclaimed author of Red Earth and Pouring Rain come five haunting stories that paint a vivid picture of Bombay — its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries — and explore timeless questions of the human spirit.
The stories in Love and Longing in Bombay are linked by a single narrator, an elusive civil servant, who recounts an extraordinary sequence of tales to those seated around him in a smoky Bombay bar. Each of these stories belongs to a distinct genre: in "Shakti," a love story, two feuding families are united by forbidden passion; in "Dharma," a ghost story, a soldier forced to save his life by amputating own leg returns home to find that his house is haunted by the spirit of a small child; and in "Kama," a mystery, a detective takes on a murder case and finds himself traveling deep into the farthest reaches of carnality and deceit. Tightly controlled and luminously written, these beguiling tales prove once again that Vikram Chandra is one of the most original and accomplished writers at work today. Review:"[I]ngeniously linked....These stories...are uniformly full-bodied and richly detailed....A brilliant work, equally effective in its radiant separate parts and as a pleasingly complex and highly original construction." Kirkus Reviews Review:"[I]mmensely absorbing....Impeccably controlled, intelligent, sensuous and sometimes grim, Chandra's timeless and timely book is remarkably life-affirming, considering the dark areas of the heart he explores." Publishers Weekly Review:"Each sumptuous and suspenseful tale is strikingly different from the others even as they all reflect the intricacies of Indian culture and Chandra's profound sensitivity to the vagaries of the heart and the implacability of circumstances." Booklist Review:"Love and Longing in Bombay stands out as a considerable accomplishment, one in which the author marries his storytelling prowess to a profound understanding of India's ageless and ever-changing society." Shashi Tharoor, The New York Times Book Review Review:"Chandra's gift is the elaborate, pleasurable narrative line, sort of fiction you could stay up and read all night." John Sutherland, Seattle Times Review:"Exquisite....At the heart of each story is a mystery that keeps you reading." Chitra Divakurni, San Francisco Chronicle Review:"Displays as light a satirical touch as if it were Edith Wharton let loose on Malabar Hill, the great neck of Bombay....Chandra knows how to catch a whole era of expectation and loss in a single phrase." John Weir, Newsday Review:"Himmies with contradiction, seduction, and trouble....A perfect conundrum for the mysteries of Bombay." Betsy Sussler, Bomb Review:"Richly inventive and confident....The reader is enticed onto Chandra's carpet, the ride is smooth and sweeping, and the vistas that open up are filled with passages of surprising magic." Michael Frank, Los Angeles Times Review:"Breathtaking....When Midnight's Children first appeared on the scene, it became necessary to reevaluate stories from and about India. With Vikram Chandra's collection...it is time to take stock again." Farrukh Dhondy, The Observer (London) About the AuthorVikram Chandra teaches writing at George Washington University. His first book, the novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain, was awarded the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first published book. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker and the Paris Review. He divides his time between Washington, D.C., and Bombay. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Dharma 3 Shakti 33 Kama 75 Artha 163 Shanti 229 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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