Description
Set against the electric sprawl of Bombay, this novel follows the long-running rivalry between two socially ambitious women from rival business families, as their competing desires ripple through love, power, and reputation. Across five ingeniously linked stories, an elusive narrator threads together shifting genres—romance, mystery, and even the uncanny—while revealing how longing can distort memory and reshape identity. With Vikram Chandra’s signature lyrical, high-energy style, the book conjures a city of restless motion and intimate secrets, where every relationship carries the weight of history. At its core, it’s a meditation on ambition and attachment, on what we want, what we fear, and the stories we tell to survive them.
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paperback
Viking
Published Jan 1, 1997
286 pages
ISBN: 9780670875405
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Details
First Published
1997
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra.