Love & Longing In Bombay

In this five haunting stories Vikram Chandra paints a remarkable picture of Bombay-its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries-while exploring timeless questions of the human spirit. The stories are linked by a sinigle narrator, an elusive civil servant, who, on each of the five evenings, recounts an extraordinary tale to those seated arouond him in a smoky Bombay bar. In 'Shakti', two feuding business families are united by a forbidden passion; in 'Dharma', a soldier forced to save his life through a terrible act of self-mutilation returns to his home in Bombay to kind to hunted by the spirit of a small boy; in 'Kama', a police inspector takes on a murder case and finds himself krawn further and further into spiralling layers of corruption and deceit. Tightly controlled and luminously written, this outstsnding collection confirms that Vikram Chandra is one of today's most exciting young writers.