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Originally published in 2008, the year the author won the Man Booker Prize for fiction, Between the Assassinations was a critically acclaimed international bestseller.Kittur is on India's south-western coast, a small undistinguished everytown. Here, 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, spoilt half-caste student decides to explode a bomb in college; a journalist dreams of riddance and redemption. 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 the Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, and her son, Rajiv. Keenly observed and finely detailed, Between the Assassinations is a triumph of the voice and imagination.In 2012 Picador celebrates its 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding, Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Picador continues to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe.
About the AuthorAravind Adiga was born in Chennai. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Columbia University in New York, where he studied English literature. His articles on politics, business and the arts have appeared in international newspapers and magazines including Time, The Financial Times, and The Sunday Times. His first novel, The White Tiger, was published in 2008.
