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    <![CDATA[A critically acclaimed novel by the author of <em>Love and   Longing in Bombay </em>offers a surreal, panoramic tour through modern   Indian and American history, guided by an Indian college student and a   typewriting monkey. Reprint. <em>NYT. </em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is an endeavor.  Written largely as a story-within-a-story, Red Earth and Pouring Rain relates the tales of two story-tellers - one, an Indian poet reincarnated in the form of a red monkey (whose human consciousness emerges after an accident), and the other, a newly-returned student sent t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49030526">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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