2012, ISBN: 9781447215974

Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2012. Softcover. New. Kittur is on India`s south-western coast, between Goa and Calicuta small, undistinguished everytown. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working … Meer...

Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2012. Softcover. New. Kittur is on India`s south-western coast, between Goa and Calicuta small, undistinguished everytown. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the train station finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a Dalit bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of The Satanic Verses; a rich, spoiled, half-caste student decides to explode a bomb in college; a journalist dreams of riddance and redemption; a sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy with a mysterious disease that may be AIDS. Across class, religion, occupation and preoccupation, Kittur is mapped. What emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town in the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv. With a cartographer`s precision and a novelists humanity Aravind Adiga composes a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation. Keenly observed and finely detailed, Between the Assassinations is a triumph of the voice and imagination. Printed Pages: 300. Between the Assassinations (Picador 40 Edition)Aravind Adiga9781447215974, Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2012<

2012, ISBN: 9781447215974

Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2012. Softcover. New. Kittur is on India`s south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut—a small, undistinguished everytown. Here, an illiterate … Meer...

Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2012. Softcover. New. Kittur is on India`s south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut—a small, undistinguished everytown. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the train station finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a Dalit bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of The Satanic Verses; a rich, spoiled, half-caste student decides to explode a bomb in college; a journalist dreams of riddance and redemption; a sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy with a mysterious disease that may be AIDS. Across class, religion, occupation and preoccupation, Kittur is mapped. What emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town in the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv. With a cartographer`s precision and a novelist’s humanity Aravind Adiga composes a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation. Keenly observed and finely detailed, Between the Assassinations is a triumph of the voice and imagination. Printed Pages: 300., Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2012<