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Description

A critically acclaimed novel by the author of Love and Longing in Bombay offers a surreal, panoramic tour through modern Indian and American history, guided by an Indian college student and a typewriting monkey. Reprint. NYT.

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THE CONTRACT WAS DRAWN on fine golden paper, smooth to the touch, in both Sanskrit and English.

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  1. Vikram Chandra (Author)
 

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