Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781843872073
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'Adiga...has boldly gone where few Indian writers choose to venture, casting his gaze beyond the complacent smugness of middle-class drawing rooms to the anger and squalor lurking in the underbelly of urban India.' Vikas Swarup, Guardian
'Between the Assassinations takes seven days in the life of a fictional Indian city called Lithur...Adiga's eye moves among the crowd with a restless precision, alert to the realities of each unremarkable existence. His subjects is the everyday frustration brought about by discrimination of status, class and religion...Adiga's sense of a great Indian comedy is never far away..A page-turner.' Tim Adams, Observer
'Wonderful.....With Between Assassinations, Adiga has demonstrated that he is an important literary talent, a writer capable of evocation without extravagance, a sensitive chronicler of modern India.' Stephen Abell, Daily Telegraph
'As in The White Tiger, the joy of reading Between The Assassinations derives from the life [Adiga] breathes into his characters..His small-time businessmen and cart-pullers are never walking metaphors of lifeless allegories..In these stories, Adiga displays the full range of his imagination. This is fiction at its most ambitious and incisive and every bit as impressive as his debut.' Ed King, Sunday Telegraph
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