Vikram
Chandra
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Red
Earth
and
Pouring
Rain
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Hard
Cover
Dust
Jacket:
522
pages
ISBN:
0-571-17455-8
Published:
1995
Publisher:
Faber
&
Faber
Dimensions:
155
x
243
x
47
mm
Postage
Weight:
920g
Condition:
Excellent.
There
are
the
usual
edge
nicks
on
the
dust
cover
consistent
with
shelf-wear.
The
cover
and
spine
of
the
book
are
as
new
–
the
dustcover
did
its
job!
The
edges
of
the
pages
show
dust
marks
from
some
shelf-wear
but
are
unmarked,
and
have
no
creases,
tears
or
dog-ears.
DESCRIPTION:
From
inside
dust
cover
In
Vikram
Chandra’s
astonishing
first
novel,
the
gods
of
Poetry
and
Death
descend
on
a
house
in
India
to
vie
for
the
soul
of
a
wounded
monkey.
A
bargain
is
struck:
the
monkey
must
tell
a
story,
and
if
he
can
keep
his
audience
entertained,
he
shall
live.
The
result
is
“Red
Earth
and
Pouring
Rain”,
a
tale
of
nineteenth-century
India:
of
Sanjay,
a
poet,
and
Sikander,
a
warrior;
of
the
hoofbeats
thundering
through
the
streets
of
Calcutta
and
the
birth
of
a
luminous
child;
of
great
wars
and
love
affairs
and
a
city
gone
“mad
with
poetry”.
And
woven
into
this
tapestry
of
stories
is
a
second,
totally
modern
narrative,
the
adventures
of
a
young
Indian
criss-crossing
America
in
a
car
with
his
friends
and
his
eventual
return
to
his
homeland.
“Red
Earth
and
Pouring
Rain”
is
about
exile,
about
foreigners
in
India
and
Indians
abroad
and
the
processes
of
national,
cultural
and
personal
redefinition
implicit
in
these
migrations.
In
the
tradition
of
“Thousand
and
One
Nights”,
it
is
a
novel
that
celebrates
the
power
of
story
itself
and
explores
the
simple
tradition
of
storytelling
as
a
fundamental
organizing
ritual
at
the
core
of
communal
life.
It
is
a
book
that
takes
the
Indian
novel
into
fresh
territory
and
launches
Vikram
Chandra
as
a
brilliant
and
daring
new
talent.
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