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Red Earth and Pouring Rain

Vikram Chandra

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#4561 of 8,085 books · #794 in Fantasy

Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1996).

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.

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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9780571267156
Topics
Power of storytellingMythology and godsIndia across time

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