Bøker av Aravind Adiga

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE GALAXY BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 'AUTHOR OF THE YEAR

DANNY - DHANANJAYA RAJARATNAM - IS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN SYDNEY, DENIED REFUGEE STATUS AFTER HE HAS FLED FROM HIS NATIVE SRI LANKA. WORKING AS A CLEANER, LIVING OUT OF A GROCERY STOREROOM, FOR THREE YEARS HE'S BEEN TRYING TO CREATE A NEW IDENTITY FOR HIMSELF. AND NOW, WITH HIS BELOVED VEGAN GIRLFRIEND, SONJA, WITH HIS HIDDEN ACCENT AND HIGHLIGHTS IN HIS HAIR, HE IS AS CLOSE AS HE HAS EVER COME TO LIVING A NORMAL AUSTRALIAN LIFE. BUT THEN ONE MORNING, DANNY LEARNS A FEMALE CLIENT OF HIS HAS BEEN MURDERED. WHEN DANNY RECOGNIZES A JACKET LEFT AT THE MURDER SCENE, HE BELIEVES IT BELONGS TO ANOTHER OF HIS CLIENTS ? A DOCTOR WITH WHOM HE KNOWS THE WOMAN WAS HAVING AN AFFAIR. SUDDENLY DANNY IS CONFRONTED WITH A CHOICE: COME FORWARD WITH HIS KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE CRIME AND RISK BEING DEPORTED, OR SAY NOTHING, AND LET JUSTICE GO UNDONE? OVER THE COURSE OF A SINGLE DAY, EVALUATING THE WEIGHT OF HIS PAST, HIS DREAMS FOR THE FUTURE, AND THE UNPREDICTABLE, OFTEN ABSURD REALITY OF LIVING INVISIBLY AND UNDOCUMENTED, HE MUST WRESTLE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE AND DECIDE IF A PERSON WITHOUT RIGHTS STILL HAS RESPONSIBILITIES. PROPULSIVE, INSIGHTFUL, AND FULL OF ARAVIND ADIGA'S SIGNATURE WIT AND MAGIC, AMNESTY IS BOTH A TIMELESS MORAL STRUGGLE AND A UNIVERSAL STORY WITH PARTICULAR URGENCY TODAY.

Bokens handling utspiller seg i den lille byen Kittur i India på 1980-tallet, i perioden mellom attentatene på Indira Gandhi i 1984 og på sønnen Rajiv i 1991. Boken er en vandring gjennom en smeltedigel av en by der vi møter på en rekke karakterer, fra en middelaldrende kommunist til en islamsk terrorist, fra barna til en tamilsk bygningsarbeider til en overbeskyttet og privilegert overklassegutt, fra en idealistisk journalist til en brahminsk hushjelp.

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.

A moving and beautifully observed novel, of adolescence, ambition and self-realization, of fathers and sons, set in contemporary Bombay, by the Man Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger and Last Man in Tower.

The dazzling second book from Man Booker Prize-winning Aravind Adiga.