Sacred Games (P.S.) - Softcover

Chandra, Vikram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061130362 ISBN 13: 9780061130366

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2007

Synopsis

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"SACRED GAMES [is] as hard to put down as it is to pick up."
-- New York Times Book Review

"Bold, fresh and big...SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement"
-- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air.

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.

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Review:

"Masterfully crafted fiction...the resonance and elegance...of his writing...put across the full vulnerability and humanity of his characters."--Blogcritics.org Books

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

"makes palpable a very foreign city, explores deep moral questions...BUY IT."--New York magazine

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

"Bold, fresh and big...SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"Ambitious, sprawling...combines the attractions of 19th-century fiction and a modern police procedural."--People

"SACRED GAMES won't deliver nirvana, but submerging in it, like the Ganges itself, can restore your wonder."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"[Sacred Games] brings us to India in full force...Impossibly rich."--Daily News

"Unstinting in its ambition...flourishing in its characters...[An] intriguing act of literary decolonization...Sacred Games is cinematic in scope."--Newsweek International Edition

"A genre-bending, multilayered saga...expertly paced and nuanced...A sheer entertainment extravaganza."--Elle

Book Description:

Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra: 'To win is to lose everything . . . and the game always wins.' The international number one bestseller, now in paperback.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061130362
• ISBN 13: 9780061130366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 992