Between the Assassinations is the dazzling new book from the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize:, Aravind Adiga one of the this years most eagerly anticipated works of fiction.
In Between the Assassinations, Aravind Adiga brings to life a chorus of distinctive Indian voices, all inhabitants in the fictional town of Kittur…His new book sizzles with the same humour, anger, and humanity that characterized The White Tiger. On India’s south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur – a small, nondescript every town.
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Aravind Adiga acts as our guide to the town, mapping overlapping lives of Kittur’s residents. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the train station finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of The Satanic Verses; a rich, spoiled, half-caste student decides to explode a bomb in school; a sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy who may have AIDS. What emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town and a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation, over the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv.
Keenly observed and finely detailed, Between the Assassinations is a triumph of voice and imagination.
Links and Further Reading
- Watch an interview with Aravind Adiga
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