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VIKRAM CHANDRA TO READ IN U.S.
Vikram Chandra will be reading at locations in the U.S. from his new novel
"Red Earth and Pouring Rain."
Some reactions to the book:
Vikram Chandra is beginning his writing life already a master.
His "Red Earth and Pouring Rain" is a brilliant novel of wondrous
conjuring and stunning impact.
--John Hawkes
A splendid novelistic debut.
--John Barth
Chandra has built a powerful and moving saga that explores
colonialism, death and suffering, ephemeral pleasure and the search for
the meaning of life. This is an astonishing and brilliant debut.
--Publisher's
Weekly
A richly textured and engrossing debut.
--Kirkus Reviews
There seems to be little point in tagging any book a "masterpiece"
at this point in history--since that concept implies the book's influence
on a successive generation that doesn't read--but at the very least "Red
Earth and Pouring Rain" does the language, and the novel, proud.
--Houston
Chronicle
[Red Earth and Pouring Rain] is adroitly written, constantly
interesting, lyrical, fantastic, brutal, and, at bottom, serious. Mr.
Chandra can make a lightning bolt look like a Roman candle--but that bolt
strikes.
--Atlantic Monthly
Vikram Chandra's novel is startlingly innovative and vibrant.
Going well beyond the post-Rushdie independence-movement-cum-magic-realism
novel being attempted by so many new writers, Chandra presents us (in the
most postmodern manner of bringing together disparate strains) with a
daring medley of fiction, mythology, folklore, history and
contemporaneity.
--Hindustan Times
It's a tale told with rare elegance and insight by an author who
can make the reader feel a wide range of emotions. Most of all, this book
is meant for all those adults who've secretly wanted to go back to the
days when they could say, "Tell me a story," and then settle back,
prepared to be baffled, outwitted, pleased and entertained.
--Business
Standard, New Delhi.
Amazingly inventive. [Red Earth and Pouring Rain] is like a
palimpest bearing generous sweeps of history, resurrected in rich and
sensual detail and overlaid with the brittle slices of contemporary life
of an expatriate Indian in America.
--The Times of
India
Vikram Chandra has staged a stormy, triumphant entry into the
charmed new literary circle. Almost audacious in its self-confidence, its
breadth of purpose and its formidable historical sweep, Chandra's first
novel is another milestone in post-modernist Indian fiction.
--Indian Review of
Books
[A] dazzling first novel. [Chandra's] prose is elegant and
various. His imagination is visionary. Above all, his poetic
apprehension of history allows him to write on a grand scale, even when
telling a monkey's tale.
--London Times
Chandra's writing--tender, funny, incandescent--so animates his
subjects that it becomes possible to see through other eyes, to sense
another culture.
--The Guardian,
London
Reading Schedule:
Tuesday, August 22 San Francisco
A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books
601 Van Ness Avenue
415.931.9248
7:30 PM
Wednesday, August 23 Berkeley
Black Oaks Books
1491 Shattuck Avenue
510.486.0698
7:30 PM
Thursday, August 24 Menlo Park
Keplers Books
1010 El Camino Real
415.324.4321
7:30 PM
Friday, August 25 Seattle
Elliott Bay Book Company
101 South Main Street
206.624.6640
7:00 PM
Thursday, September 14 Washington, D.C.
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