description: An epic tale of nineteenth-century India - of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; of hoofbeats thundering through the streets of Calcutta; of great wars and love affairs and a city gone mad with poetry. Woven into it are the adventures of a young Indian criss-crossing America in a car with his friends.'A dazzling first novel . . . Not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times'Marvellous and compelling.' Charles Palliser'A brilliant novel of wondrous conjuring and stunning import.' John Hawkes'One of the finest Indian novels of the decade.' Shashi Tharoor
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: Faber & Faber