Red Earth and Pouring Rain

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Red Earth and Pouring Rain is an epic tale of nine-teenth-century India - of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; of 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. Woven into it are the adventures of a young Indian criss-crossing America in a car with his friends.
'Vikram Chandra's first novel makes its British counterparts look like apologetic throat-clearings. Verbally lithe, astute, marvellously vivid, it brings the Indian gods into compelling play with our soiled strivings, where telling a story - hundreds of them -becomes its own life-preserving act.' Adam Thorpe
'When you're in the spell of epic Indian storytelling, any other sort of novel seems anaemic.' Los Angeles Times Book Review
'Vikram Chandra's imagination is of a scale and richness commensurate to his native India.' John Barth
'Vikram Chandra is beginning his writing life already a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

faber and faber
Red Earth and Pouring Rain is an epic tale of nine-teenth-century India - of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; of 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. Woven into it are the adventures of a young Indian criss-crossing America in a car with his friends.
'Vikram Chandra's first novel makes its British counterparts look like apologetic throat-clearings. Verbally lithe, astute, marvellously vivid, it brings the Indian gods into compelling play with our soiled strivings, where telling a story - hundreds of them -becomes its own life-preserving act.' Adam Thorpe
'When you're in the spell of epic Indian storytelling, any other sort of novel seems anaemic.' Los Angeles Times Book Review
'Vikram Chandra's imagination is of a scale and richness commensurate to his native India.' John Barth
'Vikram Chandra is beginning his writing life already a master.' John Hawkes
'A big, culturally macaronic, book a dazzling multiplicity of stories.' Candia McWilliam, Independent on Sunday
'Leapfrogging Rushdie in a blaze of lyricism . . . Chandra's writing - tender, funny, incandescent - so animates his subjects that it becomes possible to see through other eyes, to sense another culture and to shed for a while the dead flesh of European objectivism.' Elizabeth Young, Guardian
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Cover illustration by Olivier Richon Vissza