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'Set in Mumbai, Adiga's story of two cricketing brothers, divided by success and failure, holds up a mirror to the shattered dreams of a nation . . . Finely told, often moving, and intelligent . . . Adiga's novel takes in class, religion and sexuality . . . Adiga is a novelist who has grown in his art since his Booker Prize-winning debut, The White Tiger.'Kamila Shamsie, Guardian'An engrossing and nuanced coming-of-age-novel . . . Intriguing and subtly developed . . . powerful.'Sunday Times'Gripping . . . Top-rate fiction from a young master.'The Times'[Adiga] is not merely a confident storyteller but also a thinker, a skeptic, a wily enterta…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5098-8654-8
- EAN: 9781509886548
- Produktnummer: 27640688
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.2 cm x D2.3 cm 251 g
- Gewicht: 251
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now 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 articles have appeared in publications including the New Yorker, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and the Times of India. His first novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2008. His second novel, Last Man in Tower, was published in 2011.Praise for Aravind Adiga:'Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision' Sunday Times'Beautifully done . . . As honest a book as it is entertaining: funny and engaging' John Burnside, The Times (Last Man In Tower)'Adiga achieves in a dozen pages what many novels fail to do in hundreds: convincingly render individual desire, disappointment and survival . . . Between the Assassinations commands attention from beginning to end' San Francisco Chronicle'Blazingly savage and brilliant . . . Not a single detail in this novel rings false or feels confected' Neel Mukherjee, Sunday Telegraph (The White Tiger)
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