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Zusatztext A taut, thrillerlike novel . . . A well-crafted tale of entrapment, alert to the risk of exploitation that follows immigrants in a new country. Informationen zum 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 Booker Prize for Fiction in 2008. He is also the author of Last Man in Tower and Selection Day . Klappentext 'Adiga is a novelist . . . one who has grown in his art since his Booker Prize-winning debut, The White Tiger .' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian 'Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision' Sunday Times 'The most exciting novelist writing in English today.' A. N. Wilson '[Adiga] is not merely a confident storyteller but also a thinker, a skeptic, a wily entertainer, a thorn in the side of orthodoxy and cant . . . Adiga . . . displays what might be his greatest gifts as a postcolonial novelist: His strong sense of how the world actually works, and his ability to climb inside the minds of characters from vastly different social strata.' Dwight Garner in the New York Times A riveting, suspenseful and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young undocumented immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder and risk deportation. Zusammenfassung A riveting, suspenseful and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of &i>The White Tiger&/i> and &i>Selection Day&/i> about a young undocumented immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder and risk deportation....
