Aravind Adiga Boeken

Balram Halwai is een man met vele gezichten. Hij is dienaar, chauffeur, filosoof en entrepreneur. En hij is een moordenaar. Balram groeit op in de binnenlanden van India en blijkt al snel het slimste jongetje van het dorp te zijn, maar zijn familie kan geen verdere scholing betalen. Wanneer een welvarende zakenman uit Delhi hem inhuurt als zijn chauffeur krijgt hij eindelijk een kans op succes. Delhi is een openbaring voor Balram: overal ligt rijkdom voor het grijpen en zijn uitzichtloze bestaan lijkt ten einde. Maar Balram beseft dat er maar één manier is om boven zijn eigen kaste uit te stijgen: hij moet zijn meester vermoorden.

Every building tells a story: but in the jungle of Mumbai, one building - and one man - stands on the borderline between India's past, and its future...

A moving story of adolescence, ambition and self-realization: when a fourteen- year-old boy tries out for Mumbai's under-nineteen cricket team and meets his older brother's rival, everything in his world begins to change.

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.

La 4e de couverture indique : "Danny - formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Denied refugee status, working as a cleaner and living out of a grocery storeroom in Sydney, for four years he has been trying to create a new identity for himself, finally coming as close as he ever has to living a normal life. One morning, Danny learns that his client Radha Thomas has been murdered. A jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another client, a doctor with whom Radha was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward as a witness and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of a single ordinary yet extraordinary day, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights nevertheless has responsibilities ..."

Este é novo romance do autor de O Tigre Branco, o aplaudido Booker Prize de 2008. A obra desenvolve-se como um um guia de viagem a uma cidade imaginária, Kittur, situada na costa sudoeste da Índia, a meio caminho entre Goa e Calecute, durante o período de sete anos que decorreu entre os assassinatos de Indira Gandhi e do seu filho Rajiv. São catorze histórias que se sobrepõem formando um mapa vivo da cidade, decorrendo cada uma em diferentes zonas de Kittur. Aravind Adiga retoma muitos dos temas presentes em O Tigre Branco, mas recorre agora a múltiplos narradores diferentes. Uma obra que o conduz à descoberta fascinante da Índia actual.