Book description
An epic tale of nineteenth-century India -- of Sanjay, a poet, and
Sikander, a warrior; of hoofbeats thundering through the streets of
Calcutta; of great wars and love affairs and a city gone mad with
poetry. Woven into it are the adventures of a young Indian
criss-crossing America in a car with his friends.
'A dazzling first novel . . . Not merely drawing on myth but
making it.' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times
'Marvellous and compelling.' Charles Palliser
'A brilliant novel of wondrous conjuring and stunning import.'
John Hawkes
'One of the finest Indian novels of the decade.' Shashi Tharoor
Vikram Chandra was born in New Delhi. His first novel, Red Earth
and Pouring Rain (1995) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best
First Book and the David Higham Prize. Love and Longing in Bombay was
first published in 1997 and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for
Best Book (Eurasia region) and was short-listed for the Guardian
Fiction Prize. He has also co-written Mission Kashmir, an Indian
feature film. His new novel, Sacred Games, was published by Faber and
Faber in September 2006. Vikram Chandra currently divides his time
between Mumbai and Berkeley, where he lives with his wife Melanie and
teaches at the University of California. His work has been translated
into eleven languages.
