Kirjahaku

Receiving an anonymous tip that promises to lead to the capture of a powerful criminal overlord, Bombay police officer Sartaj Singh finds himself nearing his goal when he realizes that he and the crime lord's imminent confrontation is part of a more sinister, global agenda. By the author of Love and Longing in Bombay. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

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.

Five linked stories, each individual but all related by a single narrator sitting in a smoky bar in Bombay, are written by an award-winning author renowned for his storytelling abilities. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. NYT.

NOW A MAJOR NEW NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESSartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, 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 hideout of the legendary boss of the G-company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize... Sacred Games is an epic novel of friendships and betrayals, of violence and love set against the backdrop of a teaming 21st century Mumbai.

An epic tale of nineteenth-century India - of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; of hoofbeats thundering through the streets of Calcutta; of great wars and love affairs and a city gone mad with poetry. Woven into it are the adventures of a young Indian criss-crossing America in a car with his friends.'A dazzling first novel . . . Not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times'Marvellous and compelling.' Charles Palliser'A brilliant novel of wondrous conjuring and stunning import.' John Hawkes'One of the finest Indian novels of the decade.' Shashi Tharoor

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

A great novelist on his twin obsessions: writing and coding. What is the relationship between the two? Is there such a thing as the sublime in code? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of coding? Vikram Chandra is the award-winning author of two acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories - and has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a writer. In his extraordinary new book he looks at the connection between these two worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? And is it a coincidence that Chandra is drawn to two seemingly opposing ways of thinking?Exploring these questions, Chandra creates an idiosyncratic history of coding - exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the male machismo of geeks, the striking presence of an 'Indian Mafia' in Silicon Valley, and the writings of Abhinavagupta, the 10th - 11th century Kashmiri thinker. Part technology story and part memoir, Geek Sublime is a book of sweeping ideas. It is a heady and utterly original work.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return?It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman.Shanti's husband is a fighter pilot missing in Burma. For the past three years she has travelled the country in search of him. In every military hospital she visits she hears a new story, and every time she passes through Leharia she tells one to Shiv. Through stories within stories Chandra tells a spiralling tale of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new.Borrowing a structure from the Mahabharata, Vikram Chandra tells a spiralling story of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new.Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.

The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller "Sacred Games" about the surprising overlap between writing and computer codingVikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code? Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, "Geek Sublime" is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.

Chandras Prosa beschwört die abgründige Magie Bombays herauf, läßt Gangster und Polizisten, fliegende Händler und Rikschafahrer, Bollywood-Stars und Gurus, Tänzerinnen und Taschendiebe in all ihren Facetten zum Leben erwachen. Ein virtuos entfaltetes, farbenprächtiges Panorama des heutigen Indien zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Inspektor Sartaj Singh, Melancholiker und Frauenheld wider Willen, wird jäh aus seinem Alltag gerissen: Ein anonymer Anrufer setzt ihn auf die Spur Ganesh Gaitondes, des meistgesuchten Gangsters Indiens. Die Ermittlungen führen Sartaj vom Markt der Diebe in die Studios von Film City, von Table-Dance-Bars aufs Parkett der internationalen Spionage. Immer tiefer dringt er in die Welt des gefürchteten Gaitonde vor und gerät schließlich in Gewissens- und Loyalitätskonflikte. Dem Land droht eine ungeheure Gefahr, Sartaj muß eine folgenschwere Entscheidung treffen.

या कादंबरीचं मूळ एका गुन्हेगारी कथेला धरून आहे आणि यात नक्कीच भरपूर गुन्हे असले, तरी वेगळ्या विश्]वाच्या दोन वेगळ्या गोष्टी अतिशय आनंददायक आणि मोहवून टाकणार्]या पद्धतीने लेखकाने समोर मांडल्या आहेत. हे लिखाण वाचकाला केवळ त्यात ओढून घेत नाही, तर एका गुन्हेगाराला, जो पूर्णपणे तिरस्करणीय असायला हवा, त्याला एका नायकामध्ये रूपांतरित करते... यामुळे निर्माण होणारे गुंतागुंतीच्ये आणि मोठे जाळे, कादंबरीच्या शेवटी अतिशय धक्कादायक आणि अनपेक्षित शेवटात समोर येते. ही एक खिळवून ठेवणारी, उच्च दर्जाची रहस्यकथा आहे.