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Set in contemporary India, Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while exploring timeless questions of the human spirit.
'When Midnight's Children first arrived on the scene, it became necessary to revaluate stories from and about India. With Vikram Chandra's collection - his second book - it is time to take stock again . . . Breathtaking.' Observer
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Born in New Delhi, India, in 1961, Vikram Chandra now divides his time between Bombay and Washington D.C., where he teaches at George Washington University. He is a graduate of Pomona College, Los Angeles and Columbia University Film School in New York. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review. His debut novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, was awarded the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Published Book. His collection of stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, was published in 1997 and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Eurasia region. It was also shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was included in the New York Times Book Review's 'Notable Books of the Year', and also in both the Guardian and Independent's 'Books of the Year' round-ups. His most recent novel, Sacred Games, was published in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Encore Awards.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Please ignore the person who labelled this novel as 'dire and dissapointing'. To say that the stories lacked purpose is to misunderstand the layers that the series of stories represents. I was introduced to this novel during my english degree, on a module examining Indian writing this was the novel that really struck me. The examination of the encounter between modernity and tradition in Bombay creates a haunting underworld in the novel, a semi-mythological Indian past that lurks within the shadows, and haunts the disembodied old houses that are trapped between scaling apartment blocks. It is a brilliantly haunting novel - in particular the story of Sartaj the detective who is trapped between the underworld and the real world, ending up isolated from both. Read it, you will not be dissapointed.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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The stories in this collection are very different, each totally absorbing in its own way. I've been to Bombay a few times and this book took me back there. The love and longing expressed in the stories about Sartaj the policeman and Iqbal the programmer still haunt me. After reading the comments from Glasgow I'll have to give 'Red Earth and Pouring Rain' another try - if, like me, you couldn't get into it don't let it put you off 'Love and Longing...'
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Chandra is a master of language: his imagery is so vivid and fresh that scenes and characters bounce from the page, his use of words so dazzling I often found myself reading paragraphs over and over, completely blown away with the author's skill. And not a single battered to death cliché to be found. The stories too were subtle and enchanting, gently weaving in and out of plots and sub-plots. For anyone who appreciates a real craftsman of words, 'Love And Longing In Bombay' cannot fail to please. I can't think of more than half a dozen other books I'd give five stars to.
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Love and Longing
Beautifully written novel with great non-steriotypical and real characters who form the lives of ordinary people living in Bombay. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Miraj
A charming collection of stories
This book contains several reasonably short stories about various people living in Bombay. The stories really don't have a lot to say, but these are ordinary people's lives told... Read more
Published on 1 April 2010 by Jennifer Malsingh
Love and Longing in Bombay
Beautifully written and beautifully felt emotions. This author can switch from the past to the present day, from male to female, with such ease and conviction. Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2010 by Bob Dylan
Dire and disappointing
This collection of short stories is really dire, and a real disappointment from an author who charmed me with his "Red Earth and Pouring Rain". Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2000
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