Sacred Games
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On Sale:
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06/12/2007
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Formats:
Trade paperback
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An international bestseller acclaimed around the world, Sacred Games is an
epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra depicts India and the
city of Mumbai with extraordinary detail, pulling the reader deep into the life
of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde,
the most wanted gangster in India. Drawing inspiration from 19th-century
fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra’s own life and research on
the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games evokes with devastating realism an
astonishing modern city and its dark side.
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Author Extras
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Sacred Games
Set in present-day Mumbai, Sacred Games tells the story of a notorious Hindu gangster and a police inspector whose lives unfold and eventually intersect with cataclysmic consequences. Reaching back in time to Partition and bringing to vivid life a profusion of characters and milieus, Chandra's...
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