A riveting, suspenseful and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder - and risk deportation.
Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now Chennai). He was
educated at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College,
Oxford. His articles have appeared in publications including the
New Yorker, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and the Times of
India. His first novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize
for Fiction in 2008.
Praise for Aravind Adiga:
'Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an
original voice and vision' -Sunday Times
'Beautifully done . . . As honest a book as it is entertaining:
funny and engaging' -John Burnside, The Times (Last Man In
Tower)
'Adiga achieves in a dozen pages what many novels fail to do in
hundreds: convincingly render individual desire, disappointment and
survival . . . Between the Assassinations commands attention from
beginning to end' -San Francisco Chronicle
'Blazingly savage and brilliant . . . Not a single detail in this
novel rings false or feels confected' -Neel Mukherjee, Sunday
Telegraph (The White Tiger)
The kind of sharp social anthropology at which Adiga excels . . .
Brimming with empathy as well as indignation, this novel . . .
extends Adiga’s fictional concern with deprivation and
injustice.
*Sunday Times*
What makes Amnesty an urgent and significant book is the generosity
and the humanity of its vision. The abstract issue of immigration,
fodder for cheap politics, comes starkly alive in the story of this
one man, his past troubles and his present conflict. Amnesty is an
ample book, pertinent and necessary. It speaks to our times.
*New York Times*
A mesmerising, breakneck quest of a novel; a search for the true
sense of self, for the answer to a moral dilemma which damns either
way. The scope and profundity of Victor Hugo, the humour and wit
we’ve come to expect from Adiga, and a novel which suggests the
impossibility of keeping a sense of the self in a globalised world
which either forces assimilation or exile.
*Andrew McMillan*
[Adiga] has more to say than most novelists, and about 50 more ways
to say it . . . Adiga is a startlingly fine observer, and a
complicator, in the manner of V.S. Naipaul . . . This novel has a
simmering plot . . . You come to this novel for . . . its author’s
authority, wit and feeling on the subject of immigrants’ lives.
*New York Times*
Adiga is one of the great observers of power and its deformities,
showing in novels like his Booker Prize winning White Tiger and
Last Man in Tower how within societies, the powerful lean on the
less powerful, and the weak exploit the weaker all the way down.
Telling the tale of Danny’s immigration along the story of one
tense day, he has built a forceful, urgent thriller for our
times.
*Lit Hub*
A forceful, urgent thriller for our times
*Lit Hub*
Danny's voice, in its sheer everyday ordinariness, will stay with
you a long time.
*Daily Mail*
Scrutinizes the human condition through a haves-vs.-have-not filter
with sly wit and narrative ingenuity . . . Adiga's smart, funny,
and timely tale with a crime spin of an undocumented immigrant will
catalyze readers.
*Booklist*
Engrossing . . . vivid . . . Adiga’s enthralling depiction of one
immigrant’s tough situation humanizes a complex and controversial
global dilemma.
*Publishers Weekly*
A taut, thrillerlike novel . . . A well-crafted tale of entrapment,
alert to the risk of exploitation that follows immigrants in a new
country.
*Kirkus, starred review*
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