Posted on 13/01/07
Mr. Chandra's planet
Sacred GamesBy Vikram ChandraHarperCollins, 916 pages, $37.95Vikram Chandra's astonishing first novel, 1995's Red Earth and Pouring Rain, was a sweeping tapestry of tales, surveying India's colonial history through a grandiose, fantastical lens. The novel revealed Chandra's scope and inventiveness as a writer, his ability to craft monumental scenes that read like fully engaging novellas, lush storyscapes that keep on unfolding and revealing new vistas. In the end, the novel perhaps overreached itself, taking on the legend of Jack the Ripper and just about everything else before it was done.
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