Sacred Games: A Novel - Brossura

Chandra, Vikram

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ISBN 10: 0061130362 ISBN 13: 9780061130366

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2007

Riassunto

Receiving an anonymous tip that promises to lead to the capture of a powerful criminal overlord, Bombay police officer Sartaj Singh finds himself nearing his goal when he realizes that he and the crime lord's imminent confrontation is part of a more sinister, global agenda. By the author of Love and Longing in Bombay. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“SACRED GAMES [is] as hard to put down as it is to pick up.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Page after page it plucks me from the here and now.” (Sven Birkerts, Boston Sunday Globe)

“Chandra gives a startling, blood-pumping fallible humanity to his characters.” (Sandip Roy, San Francisco Chronicle)

“Ravishing...Extraordinary...A chaotic and luminous whole.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“Chandra...knows exactly when to break rules and when to follow them...Chandra’s genius is in the way he trusts his reader.” (Los Angeles Times)

“Ambitious, sprawling...combines the attractions of 19th-century fiction and a modern police procedural.” (People)

“A genre-bending, multilayered saga...expertly paced and nuanced...A sheer entertainment extravaganza.” (Elle)

“As sprawling as the heat-drenched city it richly portrays.” (New York Times)

“Bold, fresh and big...SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement.” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air)

“Monumental...Chandra brilliantly evokes...Mumbai...in all its vibrant chaos.” (Wall Street Journal)

L'autore:

Vikram Chandra is the author of the novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain (Commonwealth Writers' Prize; David Higham Prize), and the short story collection Love and Longing in Bombay (Commonwealth Writers' Prize; New York Times Notable Book). Born in New Delhi, he divides his time between Mumbai and Berkeley, where he teaches at the University of California.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061130362
• ISBN 13: 9780061130366
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 964