'‘Fiction at its most ambitious and incisive’ - The Telegraph

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 himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a Dalit bookseller

is arrested for selling a copy of The Satanic Verses; a rich, spoiled, half-caste student decides to explode a bomb

in college; a sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy with a mysterious disease that may be AIDS. Across class, religion,

occupation and preoccupation, Kittur is mapped through the beauty of the rural, coastal south. What emerges is the moral

biography of an Indian town, its pathos, injustices and ironies, in the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime

Minister Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv.

With a cartographer’s precision and a novelist’s humanity, Aravind Adiga composes a group portrait of ordinary Indians

in a time of extraordinary transformation. Keenly observed and finely detailed, Between the Assassinations is a triumph

of the voice and imagination.