Author(s): Vikram Chandra

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction

The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live. The result is Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra's astonishing, vibrant novel. Interweaving tales of nineteenth-century India with modern America, it stands in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights, a work of vivid imagination and a celebration of the power of storytelling itself.
'A dazzling first novel written with such originality and intensity as to be not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Sunday Times

1995, First edition, first printing. A near fine copy only marked by light age tanning of the pages. The d/w is unclipped and fine and now in a protective cover.