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Item specifics
- Condition
- Weight
- 2.95 lbs
- Special Attributes
- Dust Jacket, 1st US Edition
- IsTextBook
- No
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780061130359
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061130354
ISBN-13
9780061130359
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60534590
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sacred Games : a Novel
Number of Pages
928 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Thrillers / General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
46.4 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
A grand story...carefully and passionately told...The temptation upon turning the last page will be to return to the first., A grand story...carefully and passionately told…The temptation upon turning the last page will be to return to the first., A work of masterfully crafted fiction...a gritty and grounded epic reminiscent of voluminous and character-rich nineteenth century literature., Chandra...knows exactly when to break rules and when to follow them...Chandra's genius is in the way he trusts his reader., Bold, fresh and big.SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement., Masterfully crafted fiction.the resonance and elegance...of his writing.put across the full vulnerability and humanity of his characters., Masterfully crafted fiction…the resonance and elegance...of his writing…put across the full vulnerability and humanity of his characters., Exhilaratingly ambitious and entertaining.[A] vivid portrait of the clash and jangle and excitement of modern-day Mumbai., It's a rare pleasure to be arrested by this novel's thunderous momentum...Few readers will be unenthralled., Electrifying...Chandra pulls off some extraordinary writing...He...hands us the keys to the city and reveals its sordid mysteries., Exhilaratingly ambitious and entertaining...[A] vivid portrait of the clash and jangle and excitement of modern-day Mumbai., Superb...complex, mesmerizing...a full-immersion experience, as if Dickens had written THE GODFATHER and placed it in India., SACRED GAMES won't deliver nirvana, but submerging in it, like the Ganges itself, can restore your wonder., The pacing and mother lode of cinematic details in the narrative make the journey...worth taking, even more than once., Spiced with flavors of the subcontinent, this epic novel-part crime thriller, part human drama, part travelogue-is entirely entertaining., An irresistible story that you simply cannot keep out of your head...It is, more than anything else, literary magic., Masterfully crafted fiction...the resonance and elegance...of his writing...put across the full vulnerability and humanity of his characters., Unfailingly interesting…Superbly realized…The novel bursts with characters…I almost never wanted to put it down., Bold, fresh and big...SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement., Ambitious, sprawling...combines the attractions of 19th-century fiction and a modern police procedural., SACRED GAMES envisions a world--an underworld actually--that is complete, persuasive, and startlingly original., Lavish, accomplished, and…elegant…[SACRED GAMES] offers Western readers a panoramic view of contemporary India., Unstinting in its ambition...flourishing in its characters.[An] intriguing act of literary decolonization.Sacred Games is cinematic in scope., Superb…complex, mesmerizing...a full-immersion experience, as if Dickens had written THE GODFATHER and placed it in India., Lavish, accomplished, and...elegant...[SACRED GAMES] offers Western readers a panoramic view of contemporary India., Bold, fresh and big…SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement., Rich...Utterly convincing..A monumental portrait of interwoven lives that lingers with a reader long after the case is closed., Unstinting in its ambition...flourishing in its characters...[An] intriguing act of literary decolonization...Sacred Games is cinematic in scope., Unstinting in its ambition...flourishing in its characters…[An] intriguing act of literary decolonization…Sacred Games is cinematic in scope., A grand story...carefully and passionately told.The temptation upon turning the last page will be to return to the first., A terrific, brilliant earthmover of a book. Crime and Punishment crossed with The Godfather, with some Sopranos-inspired irony.", Electrifying.Chandra pulls off some extraordinary writing.He.hands us the keys to the city and reveals its sordid mysteries., Exhilaratingly ambitious and entertaining…[A] vivid portrait of the clash and jangle and excitement of modern-day Mumbai., A pulsing thriller...Quite enough to enrapture a reader for 900 pages...the payoff is grand and satisfying., Superb.complex, mesmerizing...a full-immersion experience, as if Dickens had written THE GODFATHER and placed it in India., Chandra…knows exactly when to break rules and when to follow them…Chandra's genius is in the way he trusts his reader., Electrifying…Chandra pulls off some extraordinary writing…He…hands us the keys to the city and reveals its sordid mysteries., A genre-bending, multilayered saga...expertly paced and nuanced...A sheer entertainment extravaganza., Chandra.knows exactly when to break rules and when to follow them.Chandra's genius is in the way he trusts his reader., Unfailingly interesting...Superbly realized...The novel bursts with characters...I almost never wanted to put it down., Lavish, accomplished, and.elegant.[SACRED GAMES] offers Western readers a panoramic view of contemporary India., Unfailingly interesting.Superbly realized.The novel bursts with characters.I almost never wanted to put it down.
Synopsis
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 hide-out 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 nineteenth-century 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., 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 hide-out 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 nineteenth-century 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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