Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Author | : Vikram Chandra |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2011-04-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0571267157 |
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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