Sacred Games
About this book
An enormously satisfying, exciting and enriching book, Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the lives of detective Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India.
Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, 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 anonymous tip off as to the secret hideout of the legendary boss of the G-company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize.
This is a sprawling, epic novel of friendships and betrayals, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its underworld. Drawing on the best of Victorian fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Vikram Chandra's years of first hand research on the streets of Mumbai, this novel reads like a potboiling page-turner but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dramatis Personae
- Policeman’s Day
- Siege in Kailashpada
- Ganesh Gaitonde Sells His Gold
- Going Towards Home
- Ganesh Gaitonde Acquires Land
- Investigating Women
- INSET: A House in a Distant City
- Burying the Dead
- Ganesh Gaitonde Wins an Election
- Old Pain
- INSET: The Great Game
- Money
- Ganesh Gaitonde is Recruited
- A Woman in Distress
- Ganesh Gaitonde is Recruited Again
- Meeting Beauty
- Ganesh Gaitonde Explores the Self
- Investigating Love
- Ganesh Gaitonde Makes a Film
- INSET: Five Fragments, Scattered in Time
- Ganesh Gaitonde Remakes Himself
- The End of the World
- Ganesh Gaitonde Goes Home
- Safety
- INSET: Two Deaths, in Cities Far From Home
- Mere Sahiba
- About the Author
- Copyright