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Sacred Games

July 9, 2011

Vikram Chandra, author of Sacred Games

In Sacred Games, his mammoth new best-selling, Indian author Vikram Chandra artfully combines several literary genres: the crime novel, the literary epic and the novel of ideas. The effect is electric and the result is a portrait of India today in all of her complexity. In this conversation, Vikram Chandra explains the preparation and purpose of his book.

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