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Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Author: Vikram Chandra
Setting 18th- and 19th-century Mogul India against the open highways of contemporary America and fusing Indian myth, Hindu gods, magic and mundane reality, this intricate first novel is a magnificent epic that welds the exfoliating storytelling style of A Thousand and One Nights to modernist fictional technique. Abhay, an Indian college student ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780316132763
ISBN-10: 0316132764
Publication Date: 8/1995
Pages: 542
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Publisher: Little Brown Co (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Abhay, an Indian student home from collage in the USA, shoots the monkey who stole his laundry. Abhay's parents nurse the monkey back to health and are astonished when it starts to tell them of its prior life by typing it out.

Soon, Abhay and the monkey are taking turns telling stories to appease the gods. From an intricate tale of British colonialism in India to a roadtrip across America, the stories are spun out: A prior life of poetry and adventure about foreigners in India, a current life of being in a foreign land.

Wonderful, engrossing novel.
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"extraordinary first novel brings to life the epic sweep of India's history....


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