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Vintage
August 2012
On Sale: August 7, 2012
480 pages
ISBN: 030773983X
EAN: 9780307739834
Kindle: B004J4X7B2
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At the heart of this novel are two equally compelling men,
poised for a showdown. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah
rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his
legacy with a luxury building named the Shanghai.
Larger-than-life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he
meets his match in retired schoolteacher Masterji. Shah
offers a generous buyout to Masterji and his neighbors in a
once respectable, now crumbling apartment building on whose
site Shah’s high-rise would be built. They can’t believe
their good fortune. Except, that is, for Masterji, who
refuses to abandon the building he has long called home. As
the demolition deadline looms, desires mount; neighbors
become enemies, and acquaintances turn into conspirators who
risk losing their humanity to score their payday. Here is a
richly told, suspense-fueled story of ordinary people pushed
to their limits in a place that knows none: the new India as
only Aravind Adiga could explore—and expose—it.
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