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Sacred Games
by Vikram Chandra
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0061130354
- ISBN 13
- 9780061130359
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Harper Collins, 2007-01-08. First Edition, first printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Signed by Chandra on the title page. The binding is tight, bottom corner of the front panel lightly bumped. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 916pp.
Synopsis
Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India.Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs on the Mumbai police force, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But "the silky Sikh" is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip-off as to the secret hide-out of the legendary boss of G-Company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize. Vikram Chandra's keenly anticipated new novel is a magnificent story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. Drawing inspiration from the classics of nineteenth-century fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's own life and research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games evokes with devastating realism the way we live now but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.
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- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SPIROchaSG
- Title
- Sacred Games
- Author
- Vikram Chandra
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0061130354
- ISBN 13
- 9780061130359
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007-01-08
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 43 oz
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Chaparral Books
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Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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- Tight
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