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Title	:	Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Author	:	Vikram Chandra
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 542 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1997 by Back Bay Books (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Fantasy. Magical Realism. Asian Literature. Indian Literature. Literature

Red Earth and Pouring Rain

Vikram Chandra

Paperback | Pages: 542 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 2476 Users | 222 Reviews

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The main things this book had going for it:
• Stories within stories within stories. You might get lost like I did, but I found I didn’t really care about what level I was in as long as the stories kept unrolling and enrapturing me;
• Beautiful, vivid and lyrical language: descriptive, character-illuminating, sometimes philosophical;
• A typewriting monkey! I mean, a TYPEWRITING MONKEY!

So the stories -- lots of stories -– form a Scheherazade-style framework with the monkey telling tales to both visiting gods and townspeople to save his own life: tales of romance, adventure, war, family, love, birth, death, and growing up, the magical and the mundane, from 18th century India to 1980s California. The framework around the stories, each of which has its own conflict and arc, has a conflict of its own, the challenge every storyteller has: to keep his audience intrigued. Or else.

Today the television cameras came, and also the death threats. We have been warned by several organizations that the storytelling must stop. The groups on the very far right – of several religions – object to the ‘careless use of religious symbology, and the ceaseless insults to the sensitivities of the devout.’ The far-left parties object to the sensationalization and falsification of history, and the pernicious Western influences on our young.’ Everyone objects to the sex, except the audience.

We have become a national issue. Questions have been raised in parliament. Sir Patanjali Abhishek Vardarajan, the grand old man of Indian science, has offered a reward of fifty thousand rupees to ‘anyone who can demonstrate the existence of a typing monkey under laboratory conditions.’ . . .

‘We will not be bullied,’ Saira said. “Type on.’

I was almost a hundred pages into this before I learned that Chandra had studied writing with John Barth at Johns Hopkins. Well, no wonder I was loving it. This has the same sort of sprawling scope and playful tone as many of Barth’s longer works, blending the mythical, historical and the everyday in a similar fashion. It’s certainly not on a level in terms of prose or structure, of course, but it’s still awfully good. And once I knew the connection, I could plainly see the master’s fingerprints, the DNA is there.

I’m not going to lie to you. I didn’t enjoy every page of this. Sometimes the epic battle scenes were too detailed and the play-by-play of a cricket match left me restless and skimming. But then, I’m such a girl, I don’t enjoy war and sports that much. However, most of it was delightful.

So there are stories within stories, which are also stories about stories. There’s a reverence for storytelling that permeates the whole, with the frequent interjection:

“Listen . . . . “

And we do.

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Original Title:	Red Earth and Pouring Rain
ISBN:	0316132934 (ISBN13: 9780316132930)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1996), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Overall (1996), David Higham Prize for Fiction (1995)

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Ratings: 3.79 From 2476 Users | 222 Reviews

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This book is epic in scope, a story within a story, within a story sort of construction. The basic premise is that Sanjay, re-incarnated as a typewriting monkey, needs to spend two hours every day entertaining an ever-growing crowd of listeners with the story of his life, lest he be taken by Yama, god of death. He is helped in this endeavor mostly by Abhay, home from college, Abhay's parents, and a young neighbor girl. So, knowing that the main character is a monkey who can type, there's

These things are known about this novel: epic scope, stories-within-stories, modern US subjects, and the history of India. More deeply, it explores the British invasion/influence/damage and how so many stereotypes perpetuated by Europeans persist today. Even more deeply, the fictional characters brought to life by Chandra are fascinating and human in every way. The art of story telling is treated with the greatest respect. Some of the Hindu gods appear as characters themselves--some delightful,

Some lovely prose. Got slightly lost in the third quarter, but managed to stick it out to a rewarding end.

Easily my favourite book by an Indian author. Beautifully evocative magic realism epic of Indian mythology grounded brilliantly by a modern subplot. If I still had a copy I would read it again right now.

I won't repeat the synopsis here; everyone seems to have done that. I read this book to 300 pages and started to get a bit lost. So i went back 200 pages and reread ..*slowly* and carefully. You really need to invest your attention in the book otherwise its easy to get lost. There are two main narratives- Sanjay's (monkey) and Abhay's (recently returned from LA). I preferred the former and to be completely honest i skim-read through Abhay's stories a fair bit. What helped me to work through the

This book is an endeavor. Written largely as a story-within-a-story, Red Earth and Pouring Rain relates the tales of two story-tellers - one, an Indian poet reincarnated in the form of a red monkey (whose human consciousness emerges after an accident), and the other, a newly-returned student sent to the United States for university. The two stories leapfrog back and forth, with each being told a chapter at a time. They tell the coming of age of two vastly different characters in vastly different

The book was disappointing in the sense that it seemed detached from its own story line. I wish it was not the case.Nevertheless I am pretty much hopeful about Sacred Games by this author which I plan to read in the future.