Author: Vikram Chandra
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 268
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140265724
Description
This widely-acclaimed work
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This volume is a brilliant collection of first-rate 5 stories set in contemporary India with vivid characters and a style that conjures up with swift economy the pain of love and longing. The author paints a remarkable picture of Bombay – its passions, its feuds, its mysteries – while exploring timeless questions of human spirit.
Impeccably controlled, intelligent, sensuous and sometimes grim, this timely book is remarkably life-affirming.
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
Richly Inventive and Confident
LA TIMES
Chandra fills the different stories with humor, pain, love, longing, and loss
BOSTON BOOK REVIEW
Wonderfully complex and entertaining
