Sacred Games (P.S.) - Softcover

Chandra, Vikram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061130362 ISBN 13: 9780061130366

Verlag: PERENNIAL, 2007

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Book by Chandra Vikram

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Críticas

"Intoxicating... SACRED GAMES offers up a world worthy of the effort required to take it all in."--Rocky Mountain News

"SACRED GAMES envisions a world--an underworld actually--that is complete, persuasive, and startlingly original."--Newsday

"Page after page it plucks me from the here and now."--Sven Birkerts, Boston Sunday Globe

"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

"A grand story...carefully and passionately told...The temptation upon turning the last page will be to return to the first."--Denver Post

"Exhilaratingly ambitious and entertaining...[A] vivid portrait of the clash and jangle and excitement of modern-day Mumbai."--BookPage

"Chandra gives a startling, blood-pumping fallible humanity to his characters."--Sandip Roy, San Francisco Chronicle

"The pacing and mother lode of cinematic details in the narrative make the journey...worth taking, even more than once."--Daily News

"An irresistible story that you simply cannot keep out of your head...It is, more than anything else, literary magic."--Christian Science Monitor

"Exquisite...A passionate tribute to contemporary India."--Salon.com

Reseña del editor

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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• Verlag: PERENNIAL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061130362
• ISBN 13: 9780061130366
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 964