Sacred Games - Hardcover

Chandra, Vikram

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061130354 ISBN 13: 9780061130359

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2007

Synopsis

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:

"Monumental.Chandra brilliantly evokes...Mumbai...in all its vibrant chaos." -- Wall Street Journal

"Dazzling.Chandra's sure-handed writing injects the novel with layers of depth and meaning." -- Sunday Oregonian

"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

"Superb.complex, mesmerizing...a full-immersion experience, as if Dickens had written THE GODFATHER and placed it in India." -- Grand Rapids Press

"Unfailingly interesting.Superbly realized.The novel bursts with characters.I almost never wanted to put it down." -- Houston Chronicle

"Ravishing.Extraordinary...A chaotic and luminous whole." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Well-written entertainment.a plot of Victorian complexity." -- Atlantic Monthly

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

"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

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: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061130354
• ISBN 13: 9780061130359
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 916