Atlantic Books, London, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First Impression. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 355 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing detected in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. There is a small remainder mark. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. Man Booker Prize winning author. Welcome to Kittur, India. It's on India's southwestern coast, bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Kaliamma River to the south and east. It's blessed with rich soil and scenic beauty, and it's been around for centuries. "Between the Assassinations" shows that Adiga...is one of the most important voices to emerge from India in recent years." A blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, "Between the Assassinations," with all the humor, sympathy, and unflinching candor of "The White Tiger," enlarges our understanding of the world we live in today. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Literature & Literary; India; Fiction. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781848871229. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5459. . 9781848871229

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On India's south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur - a small, nondescript everytown. Ranging through the city's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its outer limits, Aravind Adiga acts as our guide to the town. Mapping the overlapping lives of Kittur's residents, an entire world is vividly and unforgettably brought to life. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the train station finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of The Satanic Verses; a rich, spoiled, half-caste student decides to explode a bomb in school; a sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy who may have AIDS. What emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town and a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation, over the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Ranjiv. Keenly observed and finely detailed, Between the Assassinations is a triumph of voice and imagination.

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Bookseller: Great Southern Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5459
Title: Between the Assassinations
Author: Adiga, Aravind
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Condition
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 1848871228
ISBN 13: 9781848871229
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2009
Keywords: BZDB137 Kittur (India) -- Social conditions -- Fiction, Kittur (India) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Kittur (India) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction, Literature & Literary; India; Fiction. EAN: 9781848871229 Adiga, Aravind Between the

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