Vikram Chandra Libri

Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs on the Mumbai police force, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But "the silky Sikh" is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip-off as to the secret hide-out of the legendary boss of G-Company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize. Vikram Chandra's keenly anticipated new novel is a magnificent story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. Drawing inspiration from the classics of nineteenth-century fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's own life and research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games evokes with devastating realism the way we live now but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.

Una Bombay inedita, regno del cinema e dell'informatica. Una metropoli contemporanea, di sangue misto e ideologie non meno mescidate, ma ancora e sempre più la "Città dell'Oro", come già era chiamata ai tempi del Raj: miraggio dei molti e riserva privilegiata dei pochi. Tante automobili, treni e qualche risciò a motore; vestiti eleganti, circoli esclusivi, ambizioni e possibilità infinite. Dharma, Sakti, Kama, Artha, Santi, cinque precetti della filosofia hindu collegati dal racconto dell'anziano e riverito Subramaniam. Cinque episodi d'amore e nostalgia... per la donna lontana, per un legame naufragato, per il compagno scomparso, per i tempi della gioventù.

The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live. The result is Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra's astonishing, vibrant novel. Interweaving tales of nineteenth-century India with modern America, it stands in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights, a work of vivid imagination and a celebration of the power of storytelling itself. 'A dazzling first novel written with such originality and intensity as to be not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Sunday Times

Looks at the connection between the two worlds of art and technology. This book explores such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the male machismo of geeks, the striking presence of an 'Indian Mafia' in Silicon Valley, and the writings of Abhinavagupta, the 10th-11th century Kashmiri thinker.

Ganesh Gaitonde ist der Boß einer berüchtigten Mafia-Gang, sein Wille ist das Gesetz der Straße. Allein Jojo Mascarenas, Agentin für Edelprostituierte, tritt ihm furchtlos in den Weg. Sie ist die einzige Frau, die er respektiert, obwohl sie ihn unentwegt mit seinen Schwächen konfrontiert: seinem übersteigerten Selbstwertgefühl und seiner Sentimentalität. Mehr und mehr erfüllt von einer seltsamen Leere, treibt es Gaitonde in die Fänge eines fanatischen Gurus. Als er die unheilvollen Pläne seines spirituellen Meisters durchschaut, ergreift ihn Panik. Er sucht nach einem Gesprächspartner und findet ihn – in Sartaj Singh.