Vikram Chandra: 4 books
Sacred Games
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
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“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...
Geek Sublime
Une vision esthétique, littéraire, mathématique et pleine d'autodérision du codage
Language: French
Release Date: September 18, 2014
L'informatique est un langage, au même titre que la musique, la danse ou la littérature. Pour le romancier Vikram Chandra, un bon codage devrait avoir autant d'élégance qu'un poème. Tout en revenant sur son propre parcours (il a financé ses études littéraires en assemblant des lignes de code),...
Geek Sublime
The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding
Vikram 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,...
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.