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An illiterate Muslim boy, working at the train station, finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist. A Dalit bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of the banned "Satanic Verses". A rich, spoiled, mixed race student decides to explode a bomb in college. A sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy with a mysterious disease that may be AIDS.
Across class, religion, occupation and preoccupation, Kittur is mapped. What emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town in the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv. With a cartographer's precision and the novelist's humanity Adiga composes, with wit and poignancy, a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation.
An illiterate Muslim boy, working at the train station, finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist. A Dalit bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of the banned "Satanic Verses". A rich, spoiled, mixed race student decides to explode a bomb in college. A sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy with a mysterious disease that may be AIDS.
Across class, religion, occupation and preoccupation, Kittur is mapped. What emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town in the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv. With a cartographer's precision and the novelist's humanity Adiga composes, with wit and poignancy, a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation.
Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now called Chennai), and grew up in Mangalore in the south of India. He was educated at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford. His...
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