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Aravind Adiga's first novel since his Man Booker Prize-winning best seller The White Tiger ( Amazing . . . One of the most powerful books I've read in decades --Deirdre Donahue, USA Today): a stunning, darkly comic story of greed and murder that lays bare the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah's offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society--a formerly respectable, now crumbling apartment complex that abuts the infamous Dharavi slums--is more than generous. But one man stands in the way of Shah's luxury high- rise: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher who will not leave his home in Vishram's Tower A. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse, but as the demolition deadline looms, Masterji's neighbors--friends who have become enemies, acquaintances turned co- conspirators--may stop at nothing to score their payday. An electrifying, suspense-filled story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, peopled by brilliantly drawn, unforgettable characters, Last Man in Tower exposes the hearts and minds of the everymen and women of a great, booming city--ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none. From the Hardcover edition.

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Reviews from the UK: <br> [Adiga's] terrific first novel White Tiger deservedly won the Man Booker Prize. This one is even better. The whole of Mumbai comes under his microscope in the tale of a middle-class apartment block in a slummy area--and what happens when a property tycoon bribes the various inhabitants to leave. The result is as well-paced as any crime story, but so much more. Every one of the huge cast of characters is brilliantly drawn. I'm aghast with admiration. There is no one writing fiction as good as this in Britain or America. <br>--A. N. Wilson, Reader's Digest (UK) <br> Eagerly awaited . . . A richly evoked, Dickensian world that explores the chasm between rich and poor, the venal and the incorruptible, and the narrative is studded with delightful epiphanies. . . . [Real estate developer] Dharmen Shah is a magnificent creation. The archetypal self-made man, he is a monument to human greed . . . His relationship with buildings is visceral: he loves the s

Reviews from the UK: [Adiga's] terrific first novel White Tiger deservedly won the Man Booker Prize. This one is even better. The whole of Mumbai comes under his microscope in the tale of a middle-class apartment block in a slummy area--and what happens when a property tycoon bribes the various inhabitants to leave. The result is as well-paced as any crime story, but so much more. Every one of the huge cast of characters is brilliantly drawn. I'm aghast with admiration. There is no one writing fiction as good as this in Britain or America. --A. N. Wilson, Reader's Digest (UK) Eagerly awaited . . . A richly evoked, Dickensian world that explores the chasm between rich and poor, the venal and the incorruptible, and the narrative is studded with delightful epiphanies. . . . [Real estate developer] Dharmen Shah is a magnificent creation. The archetypal self-made man, he is a monument to human greed . . . His relationship with buildings is visceral: he loves the s

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