669 pages
English language
Published Sept. 27, 2001 by Penguin Books.
Vikram Chandra: Red earth and pouring rain (2001, Penguin Books)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-024612-4
- OCLC Number:
- 62735754
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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.
Subjects
- East Indian students -- United States -- Fiction
- Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
- Reincarnation -- Fiction
- Storytelling -- Fiction
- Young men -- Fiction
- Monkeys -- Fiction
- India -- Fiction