522 pages
English language
Published Feb. 20, 1995 by Faber and Faber.
Vikram Chandra: Red earth and pouring rain (1995, Faber and Faber)
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- 978-0-571-17455-3
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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 -- Travel -- United States -- Fiction.
- Human-animal relationships -- India -- Fiction.
- Young men -- India -- Fiction.
- Reincarnation -- Fiction.
- Storytelling -- Fiction.
- Monkeys -- Fiction.