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Vikram Chandra

Hardcover | Pages: 916 pages

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Title	:	Sacred Games (Sacred Games)
Author	:	Vikram Chandra
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First U.S. Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 916 pages
Published	:	January 9th 2007 by HarperCollins (first published January 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Mystery. Crime. Thriller. Asian Literature. Indian Literature

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Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs on the Mumbai police force, 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 hide-out of the legendary boss of G-Company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize. Vikram Chandra's keenly anticipated new novel is a magnificent story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. Drawing inspiration from the classics of nineteenth-century fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's own life and research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games evokes with devastating realism the way we live now but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.

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Original Title:	Sacred Games
ISBN:	0061130354 (ISBN13: 9780061130359)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.harpercollins.com/9780061130366/sacred-games/
Series:	Sacred Games
Setting:	India Bombay(India)
Literary Awards:	Salon Book Award (2007), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2007), Crossword Book Award for Fiction (2006), RSL Encore Award Nominee (2007)

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As someone with a 300-page attention span, I wasn't sure I'd finish Vikram's 900-page magnum opus. But the story is so engrossing I could hardly put the book down, and I'm not someone who generally reads crime thrillers. The language is stunning, the characters are rich and deep, and book gives Westerners like me a view into Indian life that we would never be likely to see otherwise. I found myself lingering over the images and ideas in this book long after the 900th page.

This utterly rocked. It's epic crime fiction story set in the epic city of Bombay, weaving in the Indian mafia, Bollywood, Eastern philosophy, the class of ancient India and a thoroughly modern society, love, lust, loss. Yet its protagonist and reluctant hero, Sikh policeman Sartaj Singh is down-to-earth, an ambivalent but ultimately honest cop swimming against the flood of corruption and temptation in a city he loves. This is a 900 page undertaking but it moves with a terrific storyline and

Glorious. Almost unutterably wonderful.It is simply sublime how Vikram Chandra makes poetry and spine-tingling human drama from what on the face of it  should be an overstuffed airport-novel blend of police procedural, espionage thriller, love story and gangster tale. Sacred Games is rich, ribald, cunning, sharply plotted (for all its sprawling 900 pages) and it mainlines deep into your brain through sentences of sensuous beauty.From the first sentence of the first chapter, "Policeman's Day",

This is a sprawling novel about gangsters and cops in Mumbai, India. The author includes a Hindi glossary to assist with the Hindi words sprinkled liberally throughout the text. At first I was frustrated because I wanted to look all of them up, and this book is big (900 pages) and heavy, which made it very cumbersome. But as I went along, I recognized many of the words (especially the bad ones!), so I didn't have to refer to the glossary as often. The main characters are Sartaj Singh, a

Yess!! I think it would be fun to experience 80's BombayIt is always fun when you know the place and can make comparison 😊Enjoy the Netflix series!!



I am a sucker for fiction set in or around Mumbai, so picking this up was a no-brainer. Chandra's first book, Red Earth & Falling Rain, was only so-so but this new book has managed to grip me within the first 50 pages. I'll let you know how I'm feeling after I get to Page 900 or so...900 pages later, I am of the opinion that Vikram Chandra is in dire need of a skilled editor. This could have been whittled down about 500 pages and moved a lot more smoothly, yet the characters are still