Love and Longing in Bombay - Stories
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Love and Longing in Bombay - Stories

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Author: Vikram ChandraPublisher: PenguinYear: 1997Language: EnglishPages: 268ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140265724 DescriptionThis widely-acclaimed work and winner of the commonwealth writers' prize is now available in paperback also.This volume is a brilliant collection of first-rate 5 stories set in contemporary India with vivid characters and a style that conjures up with swift economy the pain of love and longing. The author paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while exploring timeless questions of human spirit.Impeccably controlled, intelligent, sensuous and sometimes grim, this timely book is remarkably life-affirming. PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY Richly Inventive and Confident LA TIMESChandra fills the different stories with humor, pain, love, longing, and loss BOSTON BOOK REVIEWWonderfully complex and entertaining THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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