Sacred Games

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• Bollywood bust-up

  Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra 900pp, Faber, £17.99 Back at the end of the last century, an enormous scandal hit the Indian city of Mumbai. The unfolding saga revealed a nexus of corrupt relationships, violence and sexual shenanigans that would make ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Mean streets, economic miracles

  Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra Faber, £17.99, pp900 A minor character in Sacred Games, an ambitious film-maker, is described as having grown 'this thing inside himself, this worm, this python that ate films to survive, that swallowed them whole and k ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  I cried, honest to god, reading the second-to-last chapter. I had quite figured out who the ISI agent's mother was, but I cried nonetheless...

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  Big, dirty, vibrant, glorious, luxurious and squalid, just like Mumbai and modern India are. A classic cops and robbers novel (maybe not so classic) with the ambitions of a historical novel and an astonishing portrait of a city. Deeply suspenseful and catchy (with a flaw: this edition doesn't have t ... (continue)

  Big, dirty, vibrant, glorious, luxurious and squalid, just like Mumbai and modern India are. A classic cops and robbers novel (maybe not so classic) with the ambitions of a historical novel and an astonishing portrait of a city. Deeply suspenseful and catchy (with a flaw: this edition doesn't have the glossary for all the Hindi words and profanities, but one can easily guess their meaning)

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  Luca Traversa said on Aug 24, 2010 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 960 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0571231217
• ISBN-13: 9780571231218
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Pub date: Jul 05, 2007
• Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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