Red Earth and Pouring Rain : A Novel (Paperback)

from amygdala

How do you bring the worldview of a hundred and fifty years ago into the grammar of a people caught in the cusp of modernity, and tell it through an adopted language? You make a monkey tell the story of a man, himself. A monkey is shot by an irritated teenager back home in Delhi for a vacation fr...

from Rascalstar

Fascinating! And dense with characters and events. I found it a bit hard to follow -- so many characters, some mythical, and the writing is rich with detail of all kinds. It's a story of stories, narrated mostly by a god-like monkey who used to be human. I'd like to read it again sometime, as I w...

from rossgs

I read this book whilst travelling through Indonesia ten or so years back. It is one of my all time favourite books. Amazing story narrated by a monkey to hindu gods spanning India and america.

from cameling

Abhay comes home to India after studying in America, and he shoots a monkey that's been bothering the family for years. Wounded, they take the monkey in and nurse it, hopefully back to health. The monkey starts having flashbacks and realizes that it's a reincarnation of his former human self. the...

from Dreesie

This novel flip flops between early 19th century India, and 1990s India and California/Texas. It is about coming home and what is home, family and what is family, and identity. The cover is not lying, there is a typing monkey. Many of Chandra's early 19th century characters were real people. I am...