A policeman, a criminal overlord, a film star, beggars, cultists, spies and terrorists-the lives of the privileged, the famous, the wretched and the bloodthirsty interweave with cataclysmic consequences amid the chaos of modern-day Mumbai in this soaring, uncompromising and unforgettable epic masterwork of literary art.
Abhay gets angry when a monkey that has been bothering his family for years steals his jeans. He ends up shooting the monkey and the injured primate is taken inside the house by his parents. We learn that the gods are having a little discussion as to who will get to keep the monkey??s soul […]
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 policeman, a criminal overlord, a film star, beggars, cultists, spies and terrorists-the lives of the privileged, the famous, the wretched and the bloodthirsty interweave with cataclysmic consequences amid the chaos of modern-day Mumbai in this soaring, uncompromising and unforgettable epic masterwork of literary art.