Buy this book on-line ADIGA**, ARAVIND: : BETWEEN THE ASSASSINATIONS. **LONDON.ATLANTIC BOOKS,2009. ISBN 9781848871212.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.First published in India in 2008 by PICADOR,India.This expanded and revised edition first published (UK) HB in 2009,and simultaneously in export and airside trade paperback by Atlantic Books,an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around colour pictorial design along top+ bottom edges,a glossy multi-colour pictorial lighthouse illustration on front of dw/dj,with two sets of capitalised,embossed,matt white-letters of title with author's flat printed capitalised,matt orange-lettered name inserted between the sets of white letters; flat printed capitalised,matt white-lettered MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE WHITE TIGER [title in flat printed,matt orange letters legend at front's top edge.Spine/backstrip with similar but flat printed, coloured+lettered title+author as the front's and publisher's pale blue illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with a green and red bands bisected with a horizontal white band panelled design with a critic's white-lettered review in top and bottom bands respectively and glossy,multi-coloured lighthouse illustration from front repeated toi rear,lower gutter's edge.Negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore- edges bright and clean,contents bright, tight and pristine - an unread copy? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and black line illustrated map (by Rachel Tudor Best) to immaculate plain blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-351pp [paginated] plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a Contents list,a 4pp chronology and 4pp blanks both to the rear.
Author's 2nd novel,his first one 'The White Tiger' winning the Man Booker Prize for 2008,to critical acclaim.Adiga's second book,'Between the Assassinations', is a short story collection set in a fictional coastal town in India.He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize, after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai.
In this compelling new work of fiction,Aravind Adiga has imagined the small Indian city of Kittur,an everytown nestling on the coast south of Goa and north of Calicut.
Through the myriad and distinctive voices of its inhabitants,an entire Indian world comes vividly and unforgettably to life.
From a middle-aged Communist to an Islamic terrorist; from the young children of a Tamil building-site worker to a privileged and alienated schoolboy;from an idealistic journalist to a Brahmin housemaid,'Between the Assassinations' presents a compelling microcosm of Indian life in the 80's,the years between the assassinations of Indira Ghandi and her son Rajiv.
Muslim,Christian and Hindu,high-caste and low-caste, rich and poor: all of life - the 'sorrowful parade of humanity' - is here.
Journeying through Kittur's streets and schoolyards,bedrooms and businesses,its inner workings and outer limits,Adiga conjures a remarkable fictional landscape.
Sizzling with acid observations and textured with wicked humour and gentle humanity,'Between the Assassinations' is a triumph of voice and imagination.
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US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.Originally published in India in 2008 by Picador India,this first Free Press (a division of Simon & Schuster,Inc.,) 2009,is the 1st US 8vo HB+dw/dj edn which also precedes the UK,1st edn issue.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,yellow background,with green, red and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean - fore-edges untrimmed; contents bright, tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,white paper-covered boards and maroon blind spine/backstrip,with bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip, green+yellow chequered headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1- 339pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters and a chronology; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a Contents list/table with
b/w town map of Kittur to it's verso,and to the rear,a Note about the author and 2pp blanks.
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Showcasing the most beloved aspects of Adiga's writing to brilliant effect: the class struggle rendered personal; the fury of the underdog and the fire of the iconoclast; and the prodigiously ambitious narrative talent that has earned Adiga acclaim around the world and comparisons to Gogol,Ellison,Kipling,and Palahniuk.
A blinding,brilliant,and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, 'Between the Assassinations',with all the humour,sympathy,and unflinching candour of 'The White Tiger',enlarges our understanding of the world we live in today.
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