Geek Sublime(1st Edition) The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by VikramChandra Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2014 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-685-9, ISBN: 1-55597-685-9
"The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer codingVikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, ..."
Shanti Faber Stories by VikramChandra Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2019 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35686-7, ISBN: 0-571-35686-9
"Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return?It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman.Shanti's husband is a fighter pilot missin ..."
Sacred Games Netflix Tie-in Edition Part 1 by VikramChandra Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-14-344594-4, ISBN: 0-14-344594-4
"A policeman, a criminal overlord, a film star, beggars, cultists, spies and terrorists-the lives of the privileged, the famous, the wretched and the bloodthirsty interweave with cataclysmic consequences amid the chaos of modern-day Mumbai in this soaring, uncompromising and unforgettable epic masterwork of literary art."
Sacred Games(Reprint) A Novel (P.S.) by VikramChandra Paperback, 992 Pages, Published 2007 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-113036-6, ISBN: 0-06-113036-2
"Now a Netflix original series“SACRED GAMES [is] as hard to put down as it is to pick up.” — New York Times Book Review“Bold, fresh and big…SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement" — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air.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 ..."
Love and Longing in Bombay(Reprint) Stories by VikramChandra Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1998 by Back Bay Books ISBN-13: 978-0-316-13677-8, ISBN: 0-316-13677-8
" Dieser Titel ist in englischer Sprache. Willkommen in Fisherman´s Rest, einer kleinen Bar am Rande des Sasoon Docks in Bombay, in der Mr. Subramaniam seine Geschichten für erlesene Zuhörer ausspinnt. Das ist der Rahmen für Chandras Sammlung Love and Longing in Bombay, die aus sieben Kurzgeschichten besteht, und Subramaniam ist seine Scheherazade. Mit diesen Geschichten hat Chandra das ganze Spektrum der Genres erfaßt: Es gibt eine Ges ..."
"Vikram Chandra's "Red Earth and Pouring Rain" is an unforgettable reading experience, a contemporary "Thousand and One Nights" - with an eighteenth-century warrior-poet (now reincarnated as a typewriting monkey) and an Indian student home from college in America switching off as our Scheherazades. Ranging from bloody battles in colonial India to college anomie in California, from Hindu gods to MTV, Chandra's novel is engrossing, enthral ..."
Sacred Games(1st Edition) A Novel by VikramChandra Paperback, 992 Pages, Published 2007 by Harper Perennial Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-06-113035-9, ISBN: 0-06-113035-4
"Sacred Games is a novel as big, ambitious, multi-layered, contradictory, funny, sad, scary, violent, tender, complex, and irresistible as India itself. Steep yourself in this story, enjoy the delicious masala Chandra has created, and you will have an idea of how the country manages to hang together despite age-old hatreds, hundreds of dialects, different religious practices, the caste system, and corruption everywhere. The Game keeps it ..."
Love and Longing in Bombay(1st Edition) Stories by VikramChandra Hardcover, 268 Pages, Published 1997 by Little Brown & Co (T) ISBN-13: 978-0-316-13307-4, ISBN: 0-316-13307-8
"Welcome to the Fisherman's Rest, a little bar off the Sasoon Dock in Bombay where Mr. Subramaniam spins his tales for a select audience. This is the setting for Vikram Chandra's collection of seven short stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, and Subramaniam is Chandra's Scheherezade. In these stories, Chandra has covered the gamut of genres: there is a ghost story, a love story, a murder mystery, and a crime story, each tale joined to th ..."
Red Earth and Pouring Rain(Updated) by VikramChandra Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 1996 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-17456-0, ISBN: 0-571-17456-6
Red Earth and Pouring Rain(1st Edition) A Novel by VikramChandra Hardcover, 542 Pages, Published 1995 by Little Brown & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-316-13276-3, ISBN: 0-316-13276-4
"Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country. 15,000 first printing. Tour."
Sacred Games by VikramChandra Paperback, 900 Pages, Published 2006 by Faber & Faber International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23119-5, ISBN: 0-571-23119-5
"This epic novel draws the reader deep into the life of detective Sartaj Singh and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs in 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 anon ..."
Love and Longing in Bombay(1st Edition) by VikramChandra Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1997 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-17527-7, ISBN: 0-571-17527-9
"Welcome to the Fisherman's Rest, a little bar off the Sasoon Dock in Bombay where Mr. Subramaniam spins his tales for a select audience. This is the setting for Vikram Chandra's collection of seven short stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, and Subramaniam is Chandra's Scheherezade. In these stories, Chandra has covered the gamut of genres: there is a ghost story, a love story, a murder mystery, and a crime story, each tale joined to th ..."
Sacred Games Netflix Tie-in Edition Part 2 by VikramChandra Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-14-344595-1, ISBN: 0-14-344595-2
"A policeman, a criminal overlord, a film star, beggars, cultists, spies and terrorists-the lives of the privileged, the famous, the wretched and the bloodthirsty interweave with cataclysmic consequences amid the chaos of modern-day Mumbai in this soaring, uncompromising and unforgettable epic masterwork of literary art."
Geek Sublime The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by VikramChandra Published 2015 by Tantor Audio, U.S.A. ISBN-13: 978-1-4676-0082-8, ISBN: 1-4676-0082-2
Geek Sublime by VikramChandra Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2014 by Faber & Faber Non-Fiction ISBN-13: 978-0-571-31030-2, ISBN: 0-571-31030-3
"This is a great novelist on his twin obsessions: writing and coding. What is the relationship between the two? Is there such a thing as the sublime in code? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of coding? Vikram Chandra is the award-winning author of two acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories - and has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a writer. In his extraordinary new book he looks at the connectio ..."
SACRED GAMES(1st Edition) by VikramChandra, Emma Newman Paperback, 900 Pages, Published 2006 by Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23118-8, ISBN: 0-571-23118-7
"ROD0102065. LE SEIGNEUR DE BOMBAY.. 2006. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 1037 page. Auto-collant sur la page de garde.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne"
Love and Longing in Bombay(Updated) (Paperback) by VikramChandra Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1998 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-19208-3, ISBN: 0-571-19208-4