“book by aravind adiga between the assassinations”

Full of fresh humour and wry observation, a small town in the south of India is conceived and mapped with brilliant precision. Kittur on India's south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, is a small, undistinguished everytown. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the train station finds hims... More

The White Tiger is a compelling first novel about the new India that is growing roots all around us, in unexpected and often ominous ways. 'Compelling, angry, and darkly humorous, The White Tiger is an unexpected journey into a new India. Aravind Adiga is a talent to watch.' Mohsin Hamid, Booker-s... More

Introducing a major literary talent, "The White Tiger" offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen.Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher... More

Chupack not only puts voice to the cheerful brutality that shapes young women's love lives, but creates bonus coinages to describe instantly recognizable dating tropes, such as "sexual sorbet": the first person you sleep with after a breakup to remove the taste of a bad relationship.Cindy Chupack ta... More

1945. From the Introduction: In this series of stories, we are not primarily concerned with the origin of the Book of Mormon, from whence it came, nor the manner in which it was brought forth. We are, however, at this time vitally interested in what is between its two covers, the stories of the peop... More

In this book the author considers the antecedents of Indiannationalism within the colonial power structure, as developed in the nineteenthand early twentieth century. This book argues that when the colonial state onthe one hand, painstakingly maintained the "myth of Rule of Law" andconstru... More