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S'està carregant… Sacred Gamesde Vikram Chandra
Informació de l'obraSacred Games de Vikram Chandra
  
No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This is what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Fantastic! Modern Mumbai amidst all its crimelords, movie stars, good cops / bad cops, greed and goodness, and Ethnic and religious tensions. Hmmm . . . Maybe I should have a guru . . . " (  ) MGADMJK | Jul 31, 2023 |  What an interesting experience to meet unlikeable characters and yet still care what happens to them. Really enjoyed this book and am sad it is over. Fascinated to see the changes made for the Netflix series. Some huge differences that make me wonder who made the decisions and why. (  ) toddtyrtle | Dec 28, 2022 | Life, crime and death in Mumbai. The writing and pacing did not pull me through this long complex novel nor did deep involvement with the characters only one of whom was mostly agreeable, but only mostly. It is also a bit of a self parody in that a film made within the story echos the most dramatic elements of the outer story, but without any of the blazing patriotic heroism. Still, there is a weary, gritty grappling with what's real in life that makes the effort, and it is some effort, of reading worthwhile. ( ) quondame | Nov 14, 2022 | Had high hopes and expected to be similar to Shantaram with Mumbai streets and underworld fights in additionality. It built a lot of stories in silos but couldnt stich them in the end properly. The charcters and timezone were all over the place with present, past and future tense being muddled together. Good for a very long train journey but reading 1 hour everyday would take a lot of time and less gratification in the end. (  ) Ravi07BEC | Jul 20, 2022 | One of my favorite books ever. It's why I read. ( ) ByronDB | May 17, 2022 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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