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Kittur is on India`s south-western cost, in between Goa and Calicut - a small, undistinguished every town. Here an illiterateMuslim boy working at the train station finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a Dalit bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of The Satanic Verses; a rich, spoiled, half-cast 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 assasinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Ragiv. With the catographer`s precision and the novelists humanity Aravind Adiga composes a group portrait of ordinary Indiansin a time of extraordinary transformation. Keenly observed and finely detailed, Between the Assasinations is a triumph of the voice and imagination.
ISBN - 9780330450546
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Pages : 250
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