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by Vikram Chandra

Author: Vikram Chandra
Publisher: Penguin Books (August 30, 2006)
Language: English
Pages: 288
ePub: 1345 kb
Fb2: 1292 kb
Rating: 4.9
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Category: Literature
Subcategory: Short Stories and Anthologies
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Home Vikram Chandra Love and Longing in Bombay. Love and Longing in Bombay, . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26. Love and Longing in Bombay. It had been with him from long ago, this leap, and he knew where it took him, but this night a pain grew in that part of him that he no longer had, and he tried to fight it away, imagining the rush of air against his neck, the flapping of his clothes, the complete darkness, but it was no use. He was still awake.
I bought Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) after coming across raves for his later novel Sacred Games (2007)
I bought Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) after coming across raves for his later novel Sacred Games (2007). Chandra’s deep dive into Mumbai’s underworld attracted me, but was I ready for a 992-page epic? I decided to begin with this 268-page collection of long stories and short novellas about Mumbai when it was called Bombay. Sentence by sentence, Chandra is a prose master. Everything he writes is a pleasure to read but in his quest to avoid stating the obvious he often lost me as his convoluted, evanescent plots unwound.
This was pretty thin, but insignificant enough not to detract. The five stories were mixed and somewhat eclectic. Each story has a title attributed with a Hindu concept (sort of based on Purusartha), loosely described below with each story.
It’s that slow descent into the dusk that oppresses me, that endless end with its under-taste of death. Not so long ago, one Sunday evening, I flipped the television off and on a dozen times, walked. around my room three times, sat on the floor and tried to read a thriller, switched on the television again, and the relentless chatty joyousness finally drove me out of the house. I walked aimlessly through the streets, listening to the long echoes of children’s games, tormented by a nostalgia that settled lightly over me.
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. 123. Published: 2008. 106. Published: 2011. Red Earth and Pouring Rain.
Vikram Chandra (born 1961 in India) is an Indian-American writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Chandra was born in New Delhi in 1961
Vikram Chandra (born 1961 in India) is an Indian-American writer. Chandra was born in New Delhi in 1961. His father Navin Chandra was a business executive who is now retired. His mother Kamna Chandra has written several Hindi films and plays. Her most notable works include the films Prem Rog (1982), 1942: A Love Story (1994), Chandni, directed by Yash Chopra and Qarib Qarib Singlle (2017)
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Love and Longing in Bombay. From the acclaimed author of 'Red Earth and Pouring Rain', this is a collection of interconnected stories set in contemporary India.
However while reading Love and Longing in Bombay, the city itself didn't strike as particularly important. Vikram Chandra is a remarkable, startling and very welcome exception. Mr. Chandra is a marvelous storyteller
However while reading Love and Longing in Bombay, the city itself didn't strike as particularly important. you'd be hard pressed to assign them any sort of archetype. Can't wait for his next piece. Chandra is a marvelous storyteller. This matters, because telling a good story, not cleverness and fireworks, is what fiction is about.
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Vikram Chandra is the author of Geek Sublime, Sacred Games (now a Netflix series), Love and Longing in Bombay, and . Vikram Chandra’s first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, was published in 1995
Vikram Chandra is the author of Geek Sublime, Sacred Games (now a Netflix series), Love and Longing in Bombay, and Red Earth and Pouring Rain. Vikram Chandra’s first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, was published in 1995. The book won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David. Higham Prize for Fiction. His collection of short stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, was published in 1997. Love and Longing in Bombay won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Eurasia region) and was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize.