BOOKS

Between the Assassinations

From the winner of the Man Booker Prize

Aravind Adiga

RRP: £9.99

1 March 2012

Published by Atlantic Books

ISBN: 9781848878099

RRP: £14.99

1 July 2009

Published by Atlantic Books

ISBN: 9781848871212

RRP: £6.99

1 April 2010

Published by Atlantic Books

ISBN: 9781848877474

The dazzling new book from the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize: one of the summer’s most eagerly anticipated works of fiction.

In his compelling new work of fiction, Aravind Adiga has imagined the small Indian city of Kittur, an everytown nestling on the coast south of Goa and north of Calicut. Through the myriad and distinctive voices of its inhabitants, an entire Indian world comes vividly and unforgettably to life.

From a middle-aged Communist to an Islamic terrorist; from the young children of a Tamil building-site worker to a privileged and alienated schoolboy; from an idealistic journalist to a Brahmin housemaid, Adiga has produced a microcosm of Indian life in the 80s, the years between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv. Muslim, Christian and Hindu, high-caste and low-caste, rich and poor: all of Indian life – the ‘sorrowful parade of humanity’ – is here.

Journeying through Kittur’s streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and outer limits, Adiga conjures a remarkable fictional landscape. Sizzling with acid observations, and textured with wicked humour and gentle humanity, Between the Assassinations is a triumph of voice and imagination.