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Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Red Earth and Pouring Rain | Vikram Chandra
4 posts | 4 read | 2 reading | 7 to read
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
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Eyelit
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My September #tbr pile of books I must finish this month (two due soon to the library, 2 are for book clubs, 1 is a book I started in January and am well overdue on returning to 😂)
Am just noticing that there‘s a slight color scheme here 😄

jmtrivera What's black and white and red all over? 😂 3y
archaeolibrarianologist Uzumaki!! Soooo good. I'm not even a Manga fan. 3y
Eyelit @jmtrivera right?!? 🤣 3y
Eyelit @archaeolibrarianologist good to know! I‘ve been making my way through Junji Ito‘s catalogue this past year - so creepy and so good 😆 3y
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habitbynight
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What a book. I read this authors short stories and they amazed me, then I went and read this. If each of his short stories could be a short film, this would be an award winning film.

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CynthJean

So this is a book that has excited me yet twice I have put it down. Third attempt

Jaimelire Maybe third time will be lucky! 8y
CynthJean That's my hope already farther in. 8y
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