Red Earth And Pouring Rain Av Vikram Chandra

<p><b>An epic tale of nineteenth-century India - of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; of hoofbeats thundering through the streets of Calcutta; of great wars and love affairs and a city gone mad with poetry. Woven into it are the adventures of a young Indian criss-crossing America in a car with his friends.</b><br><br>''A dazzling first novel . . . Not merely drawing on myth but making it.'' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>''Marvellous and compelling.'' Charles Palliser<br><br>''A brilliant novel of wondrous conjuring and stunning import.'' John Hawkes<br><br>''One of the finest Indian novels of the decade.'' Shashi Tharoor</p>