[bksvol-discuss] Submitted: Sacred Games
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 17:15:45 -0400
All,
I have just submitted for validation the following,
Sacred Games, by Vikhram Chandra, 2007, 850 pages.
From the book jacket:
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
hideout 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 nineteenthcentury
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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I hope someone will pick up this amazing and brilliant novel, likely to be one
of this year's very best works of fiction in the English language.
Thanks,
Brian Miller
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