Book description
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
Born in New Delhi, India, in 1961, Vikram Chandra now divides his
time between Bombay and Washington D. C., where he teaches at George
Washington University. He is a graduate of Pomona College, Los Angeles
and Columbia University Film School in New York. His stories have
appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review. His debut novel, Red
Earth and Pouring Rain, was awarded the David Higham Prize for Fiction
and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Published Book.
His collection of stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, was published in
1997 and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Eurasia region. It
was also shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was included in
the New York Times Book Review's 'Notable Books of the Year', and also
in both the Guardian and Independent's 'Books of the Year' round-ups.
His most recent novel, Sacred Games, was published in 2007 and was
shortlisted for the Encore Awards.
