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. -- Juan Gabriel Vasquez * New York Times
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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. -- Dwight Garner * 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. -- John Freeman * 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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