Sacred Games - Tapa dura

"Monumental.Chandra brilliantly evokes...Mumbai...in all its vibrant chaos." -- Wall Street Journal

"Dazzling.Chandra's sure-handed writing injects the novel with layers of depth and meaning." -- Sunday Oregonian

"A grand story...carefully and passionately told.The temptation upon turning the last page will be to return to the first." -- Denver Post

"Bold, fresh and big.SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement." -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"Superb.complex, mesmerizing...a full-immersion experience, as if Dickens had written THE GODFATHER and placed it in India." -- Grand Rapids Press

"Unfailingly interesting.Superbly realized.The novel bursts with characters.I almost never wanted to put it down." -- Houston Chronicle

"Ravishing.Extraordinary...A chaotic and luminous whole." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Well-written entertainment.a plot of Victorian complexity." -- Atlantic Monthly

"Masterfully crafted fiction.the resonance and elegance...of his writing.put across the full vulnerability and humanity of his characters." -- Blogcritics.org Books

"Chandra.knows exactly when to break rules and when to follow them.Chandra's genius is in the way he trusts his reader." -- Los Angeles Times