The ?dazzling new book from the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize: one of the
summer's most eagerly anticipated works of fiction. In Between the
Assassinations, Aravind Adiga brings to life a chorus of distinctive Indian
voices, all inhabitants in the fictional town of Kittur? His new book sizzles
with the same humor, anger, and humanity that characterized The White Tiger. On
India's south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur ? a small,
nondescript town. Aravind Adiga acts as our guide to the town, mapping
overlapping lives of Kittur's residents. 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 Rajiv. Keenly observed and
finely detailed, Between the Assassinations is a triumph of voice and
imagination.