num_pages: 542
description: 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.
language: English
title: Red Earth and Pouring Rain
titlecomplete: Red Earth and Pouring Rain
genres: Fiction, Indian Literature, Magical Realism, Asia, India, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2666
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book Overall, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: David Higham Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Little Brown & Co