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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.

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Extraordinary and brilliant... Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision. -- The Sunday Times

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Aravind Adiga is the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning best seller The White Tiger and a collection of stories, Between the Assassinations. He was born in Madras, India in 1974 and grew up in Mangalore. After emigrating to Sydney, Australia, with his family, he studied at James Ruse Agricultural High School, later attending Columbia and Oxford universities. A former correspondent for Time magazine, he has also been published in the Financial Times and The Times (London). He lives in India. His website is at www.aravindadiga.com Sam Dastor was born in Mumbai, studied English at Cambridge and trained at RADA. His early theatrical experience included a spell at the National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier. Dastor's many television appearances include Claudius, Yes, Minister, Mountbatten, Julius Caesar and Fortunes of War. He has also appeared in the films Made, Jinnah and Such A Long Journey, has recorded over 1000 broadcasts for the BBC and read numerous audiobooks.

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