01424nam a22002297a 4500 20251222155002.0 251222b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780140265729 Gifted Sudhakar, 7045818418 English Fc VIK/LO Vikram Chandra LOVE AND LONGING IN BOMBAY 1 New Delhi Penguin Books 1997 270 In these five haunting stories Vikram Chandra paints a remarkable picture of Bombay?its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries?while exploring timeless questions of the human spirit. ? The stories are linked by a single narrator, an elusive civil servant, who, on each of five evenings, recounts an extraordinary tale to those seated around him in a smoky Bombay bar. In 'Shakti', two feuding business families are united by a forbidden passion; in 'Dharma', a soldier forced to save his life through a terrible act of self-mutilation returns to his home in Bombay to find it haunted by the spirit of a small boy; in 'Karma', a police inspector takes on a murder case and finds himself drawn further into spiralling layers of corruption and deceit. ? Tightly controlled and luminously written, this outstanding collection confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting writers. Fiction Stories LEN ddc 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC MAIN MAIN FIC 2025-12-21 Gifted 250.00 1 FC VIK/LO E1102422 2026-01-23 12:24:38 2025-12-27 2025-12-21 LEN 197351 197351