Synopsis
From the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day, Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime and must face an impossible moral dilemma.
A Guardian, Financial Times, The Millions, Vulture, and Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated of 2020
'A mesmerising, breakneck quest of a novel' Andrew McMillan
'Adiga's smart, funny,...
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01 January 2020
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Review
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
From the Back Cover
‘Adiga is a novelist . . . one who has grown in his art since his Booker Prize-winning debut, The White Tiger.’ Kamila Shamsie, Guardian
‘Adiga is a real writer – that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision’ Sunday Times
‘The most exciting novelist writing in English today.’ A. N. Wilson
‘[Adiga] is not merely a confident storyteller but also a thinker, a skeptic, a wily entertainer, a thorn in the side of orthodoxy and cant . . . Adiga . . . displays what might be his greatest gifts as a postcolonial novelist: His strong sense of how the world actually works, and his ability to climb inside the minds of characters from vastly different social strata.’ Dwight Garner in the New York Times
