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Red Earth and Pouring Rain: A Novel
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: March 01, 1997
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Studio: Back Bay Books
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Editorial Review:
Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country. 15,000 first printing. Tour.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - grandeur and desolation and a glass shaped like a heart
How do you bring the worldview of a hundred and fifty years ago into the grammar of a people caught in the cusp of modernity, and tell it through an adopted language? You make a monkey tell the story of a man, himself.
A monkey is shot by an irritated teenager back home in Delhi for a vacation from college in the US. The gods begin a tussle for the monkey's soul, and a wager is made: the monkey will live as long as he can tell a story. A typewriter is produced, and the neighbourhood ... Read More
Rating: - Rich reading
This was a very enjoyable books that takes it's time to tell it's tale and get to the end just like the classics Mahabarata and Ramayana. If you can't stand digressions and stories within stories this book is not for you. The author is very talented and has a tremendous vision.
Rating:  - Half-way house
Red Earth and Pouring Rain reads like the first shot of a great writer still finding his voice.
Chandra loosely intertwines two stories: one, set in India, an adventure tale in the style of old epics, and the other a modern American road story. The problem is that one infects the reading of the other; as in the mating of the mare with the donkey, the result is sterile. The earnestness of the fantastic old tale is lost. The Indian gods' appearance in a modern setting feels too much like ... Read More
Rating: - Story of Stories
In this debut, Chandra seems to have bared all from his bag of tricks of creative writing, as if to put his stake in the ground and claim territory. This also reflects the many years spent by the young author in creating this novel. Although brilliantly original, it is hard not to notice the similarities with Borges and Rushdie. The basic structure of the book positions it as heresy and has international characters within a local context, ala Borges. The basic content of the book positions it as magic ... Read More
Rating: - I never read books twice...until now.
Seems like a lot of readers don't get the references that this book offers, which is too bad for them. They might try reading something other than Western literature for a change.
This book is pure poetry, a ravishing ride from beginning to beginning :)
If you can open your mind and step off the Freudian train, you're in for one hell of a hike.
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