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Between the Assassinations - by Aravind Adiga (Paperback)

Between the Assassinations - by  Aravind Adiga (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Adiga provides both a chronological and geographical framework for this collection of stories, a prequel to his Man Booker-winning "The White Tiger" (2008). The stories take place during the years between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.--"Booklist."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in <i>Between the Assassinations</i> are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads between the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and the poets and the prophets of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed. <p/>A series of sketches that together form a blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, <i>Between the Assassinations</i>, with all the humor, sympathy, and unflinching candor of <i>The White Tiger</i>, enlarges our understanding of the world we live in today.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>beguiling and often poignant work...deeply etched stories...powerful. --<i>India Abroad</i><br><br>A page-turner [with a] limber structure...It is Adiga's near-sightedness that brings his writing to life. His subject is the everyday frustration brought about by discriminations of status, class and religion. Yet his sense of a great Indian comedy is never far away. --<i>The Observer</i><br><br>The book is a work of diverse voices...the stories are always lively and keenly observed; taken together, these rich slices of life form an enjoyable and readable whole. - <i>The Sunday Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974 and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. He is the author of the novels <i>Amnesty</i>; <i>Selection Day</i>, now a series on Netflix; <i>The White Tiger</i>, <i> </i>which won the Man Booker Prize;<i> </i>and the story collection <i>Between the Assassinations</i>. He lives in Mumbai, India

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