Love and Longing in Bombay - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love and Longing in Bombay write by Vikram Chandra. This book was released on 2011-05-05. Love and Longing in Bombay available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in contemporary India, Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while exploring timeless questions of the human spirit. 'When Midnight's Children first arrived on the scene, it became necessary to revaluate stories from and about India. With Vikram Chandra's collection - his second book - it is time to take stock again . . . Breathtaking.' Observer
Sacred Games
Sacred Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Games write by Vikram Chandra. This book was released on 2011-03-03. Sacred Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An enormously satisfying, exciting and enriching book, Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the lives of detective Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But 'the silky Sikh' is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip off as to the secret hideout of the legendary boss of the G-company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize. This is a sprawling, epic novel of friendships and betrayals, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its underworld. Drawing on the best of Victorian fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Vikram Chandra's years of first hand research on the streets of Mumbai, this novel reads like a potboiling page-turner but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Red Earth and Pouring Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Earth and Pouring Rain write by Vikram Chandra. This book was released on 2011-04-07. Red Earth and Pouring Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, Vikram Chandra's astonishing, vibrant novel. Interweaving tales of nineteenth-century India with modern America, it stands in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights, a work of vivid imagination and a celebration of the power of storytelling itself. 'A dazzling first novel written with such originality and intensity as to be not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Sunday Times
Shanti
Shanti - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shanti write by Vikram Chandra. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Shanti available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return? It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman. Shanti's husband is a fighter pilot missing in Burma. For the past three years she has travelled the country in search of him. In every military hospital she visits she hears a new story, and every time she passes through Leharia she tells one to Shiv. Through stories within stories Chandra tells a spiralling tale of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new. Borrowing a structure from the Mahabharata, Vikram Chandra tells a spiralling story of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new.
My Bombay Kitchen
My Bombay Kitchen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Bombay Kitchen write by Niloufer Ichaporia King. This book was released on 2007-06-18. My Bombay Kitchen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book published in the United States on Parsi food written by a Parsi, this beautiful volume includes 165 recipes and makes one of India's most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners. In an intimate narrative rich with personal experience, the author leads readers into a world of new ideas, tastes, ingredients, and techniques.
