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The idea for this story came to author's mind in a dream. Based on this dream, the author wrote the draft. In a matter of three months, the author had transformed the dream into a complete novel. The author never intended to publish it and wrote it for enjoyment. However, this novel and the series however became one of the bestsellers and major motion picture series. Which novel are we talking about and who is the author?

This recently published novel is about the bizarre, almost surreal series of events that transform an Ivy League NASA scientist into first a genocide survivor, then a Buddhist monk, a drug lord, a homeless accountant, a software mogul and a deadly game fighter over a period of twenty years. The book has been both a critical and commercial success selling 45,000 copies in 3 days of its release, which sources say could be a record in Indian publishing. We are talking about …