Love and Longing in Bombay: Stories - Couverture rigide

Chandra, Vikram

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316133078 ISBN 13 : 9780316133074

Editeur : Little Brown & Co, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Chandra Vikram

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In these five haunting stories Vikram Chandra paints a remarkable picture of Bombay its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries while exploring timeless questions of the human spirit. The stories are linked by a single narrator, an elusive civil servant, who, on each of five evenings, recounts an extraordinary tale to those seated around him in a smoky Bombay bar. In Shakti , two feuding business families are united by a forbidden passion; in Dharma , a soldier forced to save his life through a terrible act of self-mutilation returns to his home in Bombay to find it haunted by the spirit of a small boy; in Karma , a police inspector takes on a murder case and finds himself drawn further into spiralling layers of corruption and deceit. Tightly controlled and luminously written, this outstanding collection confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today s most exciting writers.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

On the heels of his award-winning and extravagantly praised first novel, RED EARTH AND POURING RAIN, Vikram Chandra offers five ingeniously linked stories--a love story, a mystery, a ghost story, and other tales spun by an elusive narrator sitting in a smoky Bombay bar. Critics around the world have embraced the book as a major work by this exciting young writer.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Little Brown & Co
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0316133078
• ISBN 13: 9780316133074
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 268