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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:07.2 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:11.4 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:15.1 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:18.5 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:22.4 | From KCRW, Santa Monica, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:27.1 | Today I'm very pleased to have as my guest, Vigram Chandra, whose new novel, Sacred Games, |
| 0:33.4 | has recently been published by Harper Collins. |
| 0:36.5 | It's one of those novels. |
| 0:38.3 | It's a city novel. |
| 0:39.8 | It's about Bombay. |
| 0:41.8 | And when it was published in India, when was it published in India? |
| 0:46.2 | August of the last year, 2006. |
| 0:49.3 | Yes. |
| 0:50.4 | It was an immediate success and occasioned a lot of impressive responses from New York publishers. |
| 0:58.4 | And now here it is, all 900 pages of it. |
| 1:02.1 | Tell me, when you began to write it, I mean, people are speaking of this in different ways, |
| 1:08.4 | but it is certainly the only 900-page thriller that I know. |
| 1:12.6 | Right, right. |
| 1:13.7 | A very slow-burning one. |
| 1:15.7 | Yeah, a long fuse. |
| 1:18.9 | And I wondered what was the impulse to fuse the city novel that we know, say, from Ulysses or from Bailey St. Petersburg with the thriller genre. |
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