Red earth and pouring rain
Subtitle: a novel
By: Vikram Chandra.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 669
Subjects: East Indian students -- United States -- Fiction; Human-animal relationships -- Fiction; Reincarnation -- Fiction; Storytelling -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Monkeys -- Fiction; India -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: An Indian student, home from college in the U.S., shoots a monkey who turns out to be the reincarnation of a poet. Subsequently the two take turns telling their story, the poet recalling epic deeds of glory in fighting the British Raj, the student of materialism and boredom in America.