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Author Reading: Vikram Chandra Reads
from Sacred Games
January 30, 2007
7–8:30 pm
Stimson Auditorium


Co-presented with Elliott Bay Book Company and the South Asia Center at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. Probably no new literary work in the English-speaking world is being read, reviewed and discussed more than Vikram Chandra's breathtakingly wide-ranging new novel, Sacred Games (HarperCollins). First in India, then the United Kingdom and now in the United States, people are talking about and taking in hand this lively tale of life, death and intrigues in contemporary India.

"'The game lasts, the game is eternal, the game cannot be stopped, the game gives birth to itself.' So muses a veteran Indian intelligence officer on his deathbed . . . The games Chandra choreographs in this riveting epic of Mumbai's underworld are far more profane than sacred, yet they do require some faith . . . Chandra has created a compulsively involving literary thriller by drawing on the Mahabharata and aiming for the amplitude of Victorian novels. He spins webs within webs, portrays a multitude of diverse characters, the complexity of a huge metropolis, and takes full measure of how the world really works . . . A splendidly big, finely made novel."

–Donna Seaman, Booklist

For Vikram Chandra, this marks a welcome return to Seattle, as he read at Elliott Bay for his earlier books, Red Earth and Pouring Rain and Love and Longing in Bombay. Free admission (no advance tickets). Please call Elliott Bay Book Company for more information 206.624.6600.

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