New Releases by Aravind Adiga

An “urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times” (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and thereby risk deportation. Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life. But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has been murdered. The deed was done with a knife, at a creek he’d been to with her before; and a jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another of his clients—a doctor with whom Danny knows the woman was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward with his knowledge about the crime and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of this day, evaluating the weight of his past, his dreams for the future, and the unpredictable, often absurd reality of living invisibly and undocumented, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights still has responsibilities. “Searing and inventive,” Amnesty is a timeless and universal story that succeeds at “illuminating the courage of displaced peoples and the cruelties of those who conspire against them” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis).

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life--having nothing but his own wits to help him along.

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Amnesty, a “ferociously brilliant” (Slate) novel about two brothers coming of age in a Mumbai slum, raised by their crazy, obsessive father to be cricket champions. *A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket—if not as good as his older brother, Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling, and is fascinated by curious scientific facts and the world of CSI. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn’t know. Sometimes it even seems as though everyone has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. When Manju meets Radha’s great rival, a mysterious Muslim boy privileged and confident in all the ways Manju is not, everything in Manju’s world begins to change, and he is faced by decisions that will challenge his sense of self and of the world around him. Filled with unforgettable characters from across India’s social strata—the old scout everyone calls Tommy Sir; Anand Mehta, the big-dreaming investor; Sofia, a wealthy, beautiful girl and the boys’ biggest fan—Selection Day “brings a family, a city, and an entire country to scabrous and antic life” (Chicago Tribune).

"Goda bostäder åt goda indier" står det på skylten utanför torn A i Vishram Society, den som avtäcktes på premiärminister Nehrus födelsedag. Över femtio år har gått, och trots att Bombay blivit ett annat står tornet kvar. Inklämt mellan flygplats och slum, fläckat av regnvatten och mögel. Men kanske inte länge till. Mark är en bristvara, och fastighetsmogulen Dharmen Shah vill riva och bygga nytt. En stor summa pengar erbjuds de boende i de kooperativt ägda bostadsrätterna. Men för att försäljningen ska gå igenom måste samtliga säga ja. En efter en låter de sig övertalas. Till slut finns det bara en man som envist vägrar ge med sig, den pensionerade läraren Masterji som nyligen blivit änkling. Att han varit en respekterad man i huset glömmer grannarna snabbt. Han står ju i vägen för deras rikedom och lycka. En enda fråga återstår: Hur långt är grannarna beredda att gå?

A Bombay, tout le monde sait que la tour A de la résidence Vishram est un immeuble de bonne qualité... Et ce malgré les bidonvilles qui l'environnent et la proximité de l'aéroport. Mais voilà qu'un promoteur plein d'ambition projette de construire en lieu et place de cette tour un immeuble de grand luxe, et donc d'en exproprier les copropriétaires actuels. Même si la compensation financière offerte par le magnat du bâtiment est très généreuse, certains refusent de partir. Et comme personne ne touchera la moindre roupie tant que l'unanimité ne sera pas obtenue, la tension monte, les pressions s'intensifient. Bientôt seul résiste encore un professeur retraité, autrefois respecté de tous, contre qui voisins puis amis, aveuglés par la cupidité et la promesse d'un avenir radieux, vont se liguer, prêts à tout pour empocher leur argent... Un roman à suspense où sont décrits, d'une plume acérée et non sans humour, les désordres qui secouent la société indienne actuelle : bouleversements immobiliers, corruption généralisée, rêves illusoires de promotion sociale. A travers la destinée de personnages hauts en couleur se dessine le portrait sans concession d'une ville d'exception, Bombay, cité sans limites, où des gens ordinaires vont être poussés au bout des leurs.

Welkom in het stadje Kittur. Kittur is gelegen aan de zuidwestelijke kust van India, ingeklemd tussen de Arabische Zee en de Kaliamma-rivier. Als we mogen afgaan op de personages die Tussen de aanslagen bevolken, dan biedt Kittur een uitzonderlijke mix van slimmeriken en verdorven zielen, van up-and-coming en losers, en van dichters en profeten, in een India zoals dat nog maar nauwelijks beschreven is in de hedendaagse literatuur. Tussen de aanslagen is een portret van het leven in een Indiaas stadje in de periode tussen de moordaanslagen op IndiraGandhi in 1984 en haar zoon Rajiv in 1991. Adiga beschrijft in zijn bejubelde stijl de klassenstrijd in zijn land met de felheid van een underdog en de passie van een beeldenstormer. Tussen de aanslagen is een briljant en gedurfd mozaïek van het leven in India. Met dezelfde nietsontziende eerlijkheid als in De Witte Tijger vergroot Adiga opnieuw ons begrip van de wereld waarin we leven.

When he relocates to New Delhi to take a new job, Balram Halwai is disillusioned by the city's materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past.

Kittur, une petite ville imaginaire de l’Inde du Sud située sur la côte du Karnataka – entre Goa et Calicut – est le théâtre des dernières histoires de l’auteur du Tigre blanc. Avec ses hautes et basses castes, ses multiples religions, ses immigrés tamouls, ses rikshawallahs, ses fonctionnaires corrompus et ses enfants des rues, Kittur incarne l’Inde tout entière. On y croise Ziauddin, garçon famélique qui hante comme tant d’autres les gares du pays ; "Xerox" Ramakrishna, arrêté pour vente illégale de photocopies des Versets sataniques ; Shankara, poseur de bombe dans son école jésuite ; Abbasi, propriétaire musulman d’un atelier de confection qui résiste aux pressions des fonctionnaires véreux ; Soumya, douce petite fille d’ouvrier qui, par amour pour son père, court lui chercher sa dose d’héroïne à l’autre bout de la ville ; George D’Souza, le jardinier catholique de Mrs Gomes, qui peine à établir la juste distance entre maîtresse et serviteur ; Murali, le brahmane devenu communiste, qui a laissé la vie passer... Ces quatorze destinées attachantes et envoûtantes d’hommes, de femmes et d’enfants illustrent les terribles et injustes enjeux de castes, de classes et de pouvoir dont l’Inde a été la scène lors d’années cruciales : entre l’assassinat d’Indira Gandhi et celui de son fils Rajiv.

Aan wie je het ook vraagt in Bombay, iedereen zal zeggen dat Toren A helemaal pucca is. Het gebouw is dan wel omringd door sloppenwijken en er razen ook continu vliegtuigen over, toch is het al vijftig jaar lang pucca. Maar Bombay is veranderd in die lange tijd, en niet alleen van naam. Mumbai is nu een stad in ontwikkeling, bevolkt door welvarende Indiërs die in het buitenland steenrijk zijn geworden. Wanneer projectontwikkelaar Dharmen Shah de bewoners van Toren A probeert uit te kopen om er luxueuze appartementen te bouwen, is zijn bod meer dan genereus. Maar lang niet iedereen accepteert het bod: velen wonen al hun hele leven in het gebouw en zijn bovendien op leeftijd. De spanningen tussen de doorgaans zo beleefde bewoners van Toren A komen tot een kookpunt wanneer ze een voor een toch voor het geld zwichten, behalve de halsstarrige leraar Masterji. Het wordt steeds duidelijker dat het gevaarlijk is om Shah ook maar iets te weigeren en als de deadline voor de verkoop nadert, veranderen Masterjis buren in vijanden, en zijn vrienden in samenzweerders. De laatste man in de toren is een innovatieve en spannende roman over geld en macht, luxe en verlies, hebzucht en moord. Een weergaloos boek over een man die weigert zich aan te passen aan een snel veranderende wereld.

Refusing to leave his home when a powerful real-estate developer offers to buy out the residents of a crumbling apartment complex near the infamous Dharavi slums, a retired schoolteacher becomes a target of violence by the developer and his own neighbors. By the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger.

Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city's most elite addresses. He offers a generous buyout to the residents of Vishram Society's Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building. But one resident--Masterji--refuses to abandon the building he has long called home.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 Meet Balram Halwai, the 'white tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape. His big chance comes when a rich landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son, daughter-in-law, and their two Pomeranian dogs. From behind the wheels of a Honda, Balram sees Delhi and begins to see how the Tiger might escape his cage. For surely any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top? The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram's journey from the darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.

Novel based on Balram Halwai is a complicated man, servant, he tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life having nothing but his own wits to help him along.

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life, having nothing but his own wits to help him along.

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. 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 the poets and the prophets of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed. A twelve-year-old boy named Ziauddin, a gofer at a tea shop near the railway station, is enticed into wrongdoing because a fair-skinned stranger treats him with dignity and warmth. George D'Souza, a mosquito-repellent sprayer, elevates himself to gardener and then chauffeur to the lovely, young Mrs. Gomes, and then loses it all when he attempts to be something more. A little girl's first act of love for her father is to beg on the street for money to support his drug habit. A factory owner is forced to choose between buying into underworld economics and blinding his staff or closing up shop. A privileged schoolboy, using his own ties to the Kittur underworld, sets off an explosive in a Jesuit-school classroom in protest against casteism. A childless couple takes refuge in a rapidly diminishing forest on the outskirts of town, feeding a group of "intimates" who visit only to mock them. And the loneliest member of the Marxist-Maoist Party of India falls in love with the one young woman, in the poorest part of town, whom he cannot afford to wed. Between the Assassinations showcases the most beloved aspects of Adiga's writing to brilliant effect: the class struggle rendered personal; the fury of the underdog and the fire of the iconoclast; and the prodigiously ambitious narrative talent that has earned Adiga acclaim around the world and comparisons to Gogol, Ellison, Kipling, and Palahniuk. In the words of The Guardian (London), "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.

In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements.

En indisk forretningsdrivende sender en række breve til den kinesiske præsident i anledning af dennes besøg i Bangalore, og i dem fortæller han om sit liv, der har formet sig som en både komisk, tragisk og amoralsk rejse ind i det nye teknologifikserede Indien.

Handlingen i "Hvit tiger" er lagt til dagens India. Balram Halwai er en komplisert mann. I løpet av sju netter forteller han den grusomme og forheksede historien om hvordan han gjorde lykke. I denne politiske romanen, som er forfatterens debut, tas leseren med til noe helt annet enn det krydderduftende og fargerike landet vi er vant til å lese om. Romanen er skrevet som et brev.

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life, having nothing but his own wits to help him along.