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Between The Assassi Nations

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The lives that Adiga is interested in exploring are of the marginalised, the struggling, mainly youthful innocents corrupted: Ziauddin, a young Muslim tearaway, conscripted to help a terrorist plan an assault on the railway station; Soumya, a girl desperate for her father’s love, who travels across the city to buy drugs for him; Jayamma, the lonely cook sent to the homes of the wealthy “so she could fatten other people’s children”; and many others. The starting location for a character is described in the guidebook and so Adiga manages to convey the impression that each new departure is a natural progression; he is able to (as Steinbeck put it) just “let the stories crawl in by themselves”.rnHe is also unsentimental in his cataloguing of the clutter in which these individuals are immersed: “this violent, rotten, garbage-strewn port, crawling with pickpockets and knife-carrying thugs”. Adiga has a neat economy of expression, used to convey a wealth of realistic detail, all the way down to “the clarity of the stencilling on an advertisement, the glowing spokes of the bicycle wheel ridden by the man delivering newspapers”.

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Call Number

823 ADI b

Publisher

London : The Free Press., 2008

Collation

p. 346; 25cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

1439152928

Classification

English Fiction/Fiksi Inggris, Prosa Ing

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Edition

Cet. 1, 2008

Subject(s)

fiksi
cerita fiksi
novel fiksi

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