Now a Netflix original series"SACRED GAMES [is] as hard to put down as it is to pick up."— New York Times Book Review"Bold, fresh and big…SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement"— Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air.Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the ...

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 th...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return?It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman.Shanti's husband is a fighter pilot missing in ...

A great novelist on his twin obsessions: writing and coding. What is the relationship between the two? Is there such a thing as the sublime in code? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of coding?Vikram Chandra is the award-winning author of two acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories - and has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a writer. In his extraordinary new book he looks at the connection between these two worlds of art and technology. Coder...

Set in contemporary India, Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while exploring timeless questions of the human spirit.'When Midnight's Children first arrived on the scene, it became necessary to revaluate stories from and about India. With Vikram Chandra's collection - his second book - it is time to tak...

The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live. The result is Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra's astonishing, vibrant novel. Interweaving tales of nineteenth-century India with modern America, it stands in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights, a work of vivid imagination and a cel...

The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer codingVikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mea...

La novela en la que se ha basado la gran serie de Netflix. Una historia sobre la amistad, la traición, la violencia y el poder de una deslumbrante ciudad moderna y su parte oscura.Heredera de la narrativa victoriana de las mejores historias de misterio, Juegos sagrados es una novela apasionada y apasionante, intrigante e inteligente.«La novela nació a partir de numerosos encuentros y se mueve por todos esos paisajes: un agente de policía se enamora...

सेक्रेड गेम्स - १ ऐकलीत? भन्नाट वाटली ना? पुढे काय होतंय याची उत्सुकता तुम्हाला असेलच. म्हणूनच तुमच्यासाठी पार्ट टू पण हजर आहे. ऐका विक्रम चंद्रालिखित जबरदस्त क्राईम थ्रिलर कादंबरी 'सेक्रेड गेम्स' भाग -२ कृणाल आळवेसह.

सेक्रेड गेम्सची नव्यानं ओळख करून द्यायला हवी का? हो, ही तीच 'सेक्रेड गेम्स' कादंबरी आहे, जी तुम्ही अतिशय गाजलेल्या वेब सीरिजच्या रुपात आतापर्यंत स्क्रीनवर पाहिली असेल. तुम्ही सेक्रेड गेम्स पाहिलेली असली तरीही पुन्हा ऑडिओ रुपात ती ऐकण्याची एक वेगळीच मजा आहे. पाहिलेली नसली, लॅपटॉप, मोबाईलवर बिंज वॉच करायला वेळ नसला तरीही फिकर नॉट! आता ऑडियोसारख्या भन्नाट फॉर्ममध्ये अगदी ड्राईव्ह करतानाही ऐका सेक्रेड गेम्स! विक्रम चंद्रा यांची गाजलेली कादंबरी ऑडिओबुक रुपात, कृणाल आळवे यांच्या आवाजात.

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This informative book offers a comprehensive exploration of critical reservoir parameters, including quantification techniques and interpretations for evaluating these reservoirs. Readers will also gain insight into the fundamental principles of simulating gas production from coal and shale reservoirs, as well as the key input parameters for building the best-fit reservoir model. Additionally, the book explores various aspects of storing captured CO2 in these reservoirs and their potential...