Now a Netflix original series “SACRED GAMES [is] as hard to put down
as it is to pick up.” — New York Times Book Review “Bold,
fresh and big…SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but
also for its terrific achievement" — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's
Fresh Air. 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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A Novel
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780061807268
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperCollins e-books/Open Road Integrated Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter