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A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel 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.

Propulsive, insightful, and full of Aravind Adiga’s signature wit and magic, Amnesty is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.

Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling and is fascinated by the world of CSI and by curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things about himself and about the world that he doesn't know... Sometimes it seems as though everyone around him has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself.

When Manju begins to get to know Radha's great rival, a boy as privileged and confident as Manju is not, everything in Manju's world begins to change and he is faced with decisions that will challenge both his sense of self and of the world around him...

Аудиокнига "Белый тигр" познакомит слушателей с простым бедняком из индийской деревни Белрамом. Он принадлежит к самому нищему сословию, его семья владеет только жалкой лачугой и разбитой тележкой, им едва удается прокормить себя. Среди всех своих братьев и сестер Белрам, которого прозвали Белый тигр, самый сообразительный и смекалистый. Парень понимает, что он достоин лучшей участи, чем та, что ждет его в нищей деревеньке. Пытаясь вырваться из мира бедноты, он отправляется в большой город, чтобы заявить о себе в полный голос.

Real estate developer Dharmen Shah's offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society--a formerly respectable, now crumbling apartment complex that abuts the infamous Dharavi slums--is more than generous. But one man stands in the way of Shah's luxury high- rise: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher who will not leave his home in Vishram's Tower A. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse, but as the demolition deadline looms, Masterji's neighbors--friends who have become enemies, acquaintances turned co- conspirators--may stop at nothing to score their payday.

Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize - winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai. At the heart of this novel are two equally compelling men, poised for a showdown. 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.
Larger - than - life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in a retired schoolteacher called Masterji. Shah offers Masterji and his neighbors - the residents of Vishram Society's Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building on whose site Shah's luxury high-rise would be built - a generous buyout. They can't believe their good fortune. Except, that is, for Masterji, who refuses to abandon the building he has long called home. As the demolition deadline looms, desires mount; neighbors become enemies, and acquaintances turn into conspirators who risk losing their humanity to score their payday.
Here is a richly told, suspense-fueled story of ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none: the new India as only Aravind Adiga could explore - and expose - it. Vivid, visceral, told with both humor and poignancy, Last Man in Tower is his most stunning work yet.

Né à Madras en 1974, aujourd'hui installé à Bombay, Aravind Adiga est en effet un sacré trouble-fête, et son Tigre blanc se pare des pires noirceurs pour dépeindre l'envers de ce «miracle économique indien» dont parlent les amateurs de clichés... C'est le portrait d'un Rastignac oriental que brosse Adiga dans ce conte sulfureux qui fustige les archaïsmes religieux…

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…

Балрам по прозвищу Белый тигр - простой парень из типичной индийской деревни, бедняк из бедняков. У его семь нет ничего, кроме лачуги и тележки. Среди своих братьев и сестер Балрам - самый смекалистый и сообразительный, и он явно достоин лучшей участи, чем та, что уготовила ему родная деревня. Белый Тигр врывается в город, где его ждут невиданные и страшные…

В юго-западной части Индии, на берегу океана, между Гоа и Каликутом, есть маленький и ничем особо не примечательный городок Киттур. В этом провинциальном местечке жизнь течет медленно, но, как и везде, она наполнена смешным и страшным, трагическим и лирическим. Маленький мальчик-мусульманин, прислуживающий в привокзальной чайной, попадает в сети исламского…

Балрам по прозвищу Белый Тигр — простой парень из типичной индийской деревни, бедняк из бедняков. В семье его нет никакой собственности, кроме лачуги и тележки. Среди своих братьев и сестер Балрам — самый смекалистый и сообразительный. Он явно достоин лучшей участи, чем та, что уготована его ровесникам в деревне. Белый Тигр вырывается в город, где его ждут…