# Red Earth And Pouring Rain

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- Authors: [Vikram Chandra](https://www.bookquiver.com/vikram-chandra)
- Language: en_IN
- Published: 2017-10-01

## Description

In Vikram Chandra’s astonishing first novel, the gods Hanuman, Ganesha and Yama descend on a house in an Indian city 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, a tale of nineteenth century India: of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; of hoofbeats thundering through the streets of Calcutta and the birth of a luminous child; of great wars and love affairs and a city gone ‘mad with poetry’. And woven into this tapestry of stories is a second, totally modern narrative, the adventures of a young Indian criss-crossing America in a car with his friends and his eventual return to his homeland.

## Editions

### Red Earth And Pouring Rain

- Publisher: India Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4024-612-4
- Pages: 668
- Published: 2017-10-01
- Language: en_IN

## This book in other languages

- [Czerwona ziemia i obfity deszcz](https://www.bookquiver.com/vikram-chandra/pl/czerwona-ziemia-i-obfity-deszcz) (pl_PL)