Red earth and pouring rain

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Vikram Chandra: Red earth and pouring rain (1995, Faber and Faber)

522 pages

English language

Published 1995 by Faber and Faber.

OCLC Number:
32509582

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An Indian student, home from college in the U.S., shoots a monkey who turns out to be the reincarnation of a poet. Subsequently the two take turns telling their story, the poet recalling epic deeds of glory in fighting the British Raj, the student of materialism and boredom in America.

6 editions

Subjects

  • East Indian students -- Travel -- United States -- Fiction.
  • Human-animal relationships -- India -- Fiction.
  • Young men -- India -- Fiction.
  • Reincarnation -- Fiction.
  • Storytelling -- Fiction.
  • Monkeys -- Fiction.