Between the Assassinations
This is a collection of short stories from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning "White Tiger". Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in "Between the Assassinations" are any indication, Kittur is...
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This is a collection of short stories from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning "White Tiger". Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in "Between the Assassinations" are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed...This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plotlines removed.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781439152928 (1439152926)
Publish date: June 9th 2009
Publisher: Free Press
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Modern,
Short Stories
Short stories - really good. Adiga can make you feel and smell and taste the poverty of India, through description and character, and it ain't pretty. But it's real. Or at least it feels real -- I've never been to India, so what do I know?Heavy on bodily discharges of all sorts; and each seenscene ...