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Between The Assassinations
Aravind Adiga
Free Press
June 2009
On Sale: June 9, 2009
288 pages
ISBN: 1439152926
EAN: 9781439152928
Hardcover
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The dazzling new book from the winner of the 2008 Man Booker
Prize: one of the summer's 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 humor, 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. 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.
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