Red Earth and Pouring Rain: A Novel
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0316132934
ISBN 13
9780316132930
Category
813 Fiction
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Publication Year
1995
Publisher
Pages
542
Subject
East Indian students -- United States -- Fiction. Human-animal relationships -- Fiction. Reincarnation -- Fiction.
Abstract
An Indian student, home from college in the U.S., shoots a monkey who turns out to be the reincarnation of a poet. Subsequently the two take turns telling their story, the poet recalling epic deeds of glory in fighting the British Raj, the student of materialism and boredom in America.
Description
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments
Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain is an unforgettable reading experience, a contemporary Thousand and One Nights with an eighteenth-century warrior-poet (now reincarnated as a typewriting monkey) and an Indian student home from college in America switching off as our Scheherazades. Ranging from bloody battles in colonial India to college anomie in California, from Hindu gods to MTV, Chandra's novel is engrossing, enthralling, impossible to put down a remarkable meditation on quests and homecomings, good and evil, storytelling and redemption.
Review
"As each story leads to another, Chandra's multifaceted narrative spins and whirls as hectically and alluringly as a kaleidoscope, leaving us a bit dazed if impressed." Booklist
Synopsis
Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.
About the Author
Vikram Chandra divides his time between Mumbai and Berkeley, where he teaches at the University of California. His work has been translated into eleven languages.
Publisher Comments
Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain is an unforgettable reading experience, a contemporary Thousand and One Nights with an eighteenth-century warrior-poet (now reincarnated as a typewriting monkey) and an Indian student home from college in America switching off as our Scheherazades. Ranging from bloody battles in colonial India to college anomie in California, from Hindu gods to MTV, Chandra's novel is engrossing, enthralling, impossible to put down a remarkable meditation on quests and homecomings, good and evil, storytelling and redemption.
Review
"As each story leads to another, Chandra's multifaceted narrative spins and whirls as hectically and alluringly as a kaleidoscope, leaving us a bit dazed if impressed." Booklist
Synopsis
Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.
About the Author
Vikram Chandra divides his time between Mumbai and Berkeley, where he teaches at the University of California. His work has been translated into eleven languages.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Fantastic fiction
Epic literature
Epic fiction
Fantasy fiction
Fiction
Named Person: Englisch; A Andrae
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Vikram Chandra
ISBN: 0316132764 9780316132763 0316132934 9780316132930
OCLC Number: 31777379
Description: viii, 542 pages ; 25 cm
Contents: The book of war and ancestors --
The book of learning and desolation --
The book of blood and journeys --
The book of revenge and madness --
The book of the return.
Responsibility: Vikram Chandra.
Epic literature
Epic fiction
Fantasy fiction
Fiction
Named Person: Englisch; A Andrae
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Vikram Chandra
ISBN: 0316132764 9780316132763 0316132934 9780316132930
OCLC Number: 31777379
Description: viii, 542 pages ; 25 cm
Contents: The book of war and ancestors --
The book of learning and desolation --
The book of blood and journeys --
The book of revenge and madness --
The book of the return.
Responsibility: Vikram Chandra.
Number of Copies
1
