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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Aravind AdigaPublisher: Pan Macmillan Imprint: Picador Dimensions: Width: 14.30cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.376kg ISBN: 9781509879038ISBN 10: 150987903 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 20 February 2020 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThe most exciting novelist writing in English today. -- A. N. Wilson Adiga . . . has grown in his art since his Booker prizewinning debut. -- Kamila Shamsie A forceful, urgent thriller for our times * Lit Hub * 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 * 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 * 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 * 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 is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision * Sunday Times * Author InformationAravind 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) Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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