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Between the assasinations

In "Between the Assassinations", Aravind Adiga brings to life a chorus of distinctive Indian voices, all inhabitants in the fictional town of Kittur. On India's south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur - a small, nondescript every town. Aravind Adiga acts as our guide to the town, mapping overlapping lives of Kittur's residents. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the train station finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of "The Satanic Verses"; a rich, spoiled, half-caste student decides to explode a bomb in school; a sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy who may have AIDS. What emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town and a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation, over the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv. Keenly observed and finely detailed.

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  • "Faro de los libros"
  • "Between the assassinations"@it
  • "Between the assassinations"
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  • "Winner of the 2008 Man-Booker Prize for The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga now offers a blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and the poets and prophets of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed."
  • "In "Between the Assassinations", Aravind Adiga brings to life a chorus of distinctive Indian voices, all inhabitants in the fictional town of Kittur. On India's south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur - a small, nondescript every town. Aravind Adiga acts as our guide to the town, mapping overlapping lives of Kittur's residents. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the train station finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of "The Satanic Verses"; a rich, spoiled, half-caste student decides to explode a bomb in school; a sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy who may have AIDS. What emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town and a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation, over the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv. Keenly observed and finely detailed."@en
  • "In "Between the Assassinations", Aravind Adiga brings to life a chorus of distinctive Indian voices, all inhabitants in the fictional town of Kittur. On India's south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur - a small, nondescript every town. Aravind Adiga acts as our guide to the town, mapping overlapping lives of Kittur's residents. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the train station finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of "The Satanic Verses"; a rich, spoiled, half-caste student decides to explode a bomb in school; a sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy who may have AIDS. What emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town and a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation, over the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv. Keenly observed and finely detailed."
  • "En este libro de cuentos, Adiga nos habla de la vida en la pequeña ciudad de Kittur, India, entre los años 1984 ( asesinato de Indira Ghandi) y 1991 (asesinato de su hijo Rajiv)."
  • "In seinem neuen Buch führt uns Aravind Adiga, der mit dem Booker Prize ausgezeichnete Autor des Weltbestsellers "Der weisse Tiger", in einer siebentägigen Tour durch die Stadt Kittur. Wie in Adigas preisgekröntem Roman wird auch hier mit Witz und Furor, Mitgefühl und Humor, Mut und Leidenschaft von einer Welt der unbarmherzigen Gegensätze und des unbeugsamen überlebenswillens erzählt, die uns faszinierend fremd und doch unheimlich vertraut ist. Aravind Adiga wurde 1974 in Madras geboren, wuchs teilweise in Sydney, Australien, auf, studierte Englische Literatur an der Columbia University und am Magdalen College in Oxford. Er arbeitete als Korrespondent für die Zeitschrift "Time" und für die "Financial Times". Er lebt in Mumbai, Indien. Sein erster Roman "Der weisse Tiger" (C.H.Beck 2008) gewann den Man Booker Prize und erschien inzwischen in fast 40 Ländern. 2011 erscheint sein Roman "Letzter Mann im Turm" bei C.H.Beck Klaus Modick, geboren 1951, wurde für sein umfangreiches literarisches Werk u.a. mit dem Bettina-von-Arnim-Preis und dem Nicolas-Born-Preis ausgezeichnet. Zuletzt erschien von ihm der Roman "Die Schatten der Ideen". Er ist auch als Übersetzer von William Gaddis, Charles Simmons (C.H.Beck) und John O'Hara (C.H.Beck) hervorgetreten."
  • "Welcome to Kittur, an imaginary town nestled on the Indian coast south of Goa. Journeying through its streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and outer limits, Aravind Adiga weaves a fictional tapestry of India in the 80s, the years after the assassination of Indira Gandhi and before that of her son Rajiv. From a middle-aged Communist to an Islamic terrorist; from the young children of A Tamil building-site worker to a privileged and alienated schoolboy; from an idealistic journalist to a Brahmin housemaid. Muslim, Christian and Hindu, high-caste and low-caste, rich and poor; all of the Indian life - the 'sorrowful parade of humanity' - is here."
  • "A fictional story of India in the 80s, the years after the assassination of Indira Gandhi."
  • "Nestling on India's southern coast lies the town of Kittur. Ranging through the city's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its outer limits, through the myriad and distinctive voices of its inhabitants, Aravind Adiga brings an entire world vividly and unforgettably to life."@en
  • "In this book, Aravind Adiga brings to life a chorus of distinctive Indian voices, all inhabitants in the fictional town of Kittur."@en
  • "In his compelling new work of fiction, Aravind Adiga has imagined the small Indian city of Kittur, an everytown nestling on the coast south of Goa and north of Calicut. Through the myriad and distinctive voices of its inhabitants, an entire Indian world comes vividly and unforgettably to life. From a middle-aged Communist to an Islamic terrorist; from the young children of a Tamil building-site worker to a privileged and alienated schoolboy; from an idealistic journalist to a Brahmin housemaid, Adiga has produced a microcosm of Indian life in the 80s, the years between the assassinations of."@en
  • "Welcome to Kittur, India. It's on India's southwestern coast, bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Kaliamma River to the south and east. It's blessed with rich soil and scenic beauty, and it's been around for centuries. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and the poets and the prophets of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed. A twelve-year-old boy named Ziauddin, a gofer at a tea shop near the railway station, is enticed into wrongdoing because a fair-skinned stranger treats him with dignity and warmth. George D'Souza, a mosquito-repellent sprayer, elevates himself to gardener and then chauffeur to the lovely, young Mrs. Gomes, and then loses it all when he attempts to be something more. A little girl's first act of love for her father is to beg on the street for money to support his drug habit. A factory owner is forced to choose between buying into underworld economics and blinding his staff or closing up shop. A privileged schoolboy, using his own ties to the Kittur underworld, sets off an explosive in a Jesuit-school classroom in protest against casteism. A childless couple takes refuge in a rapidly diminishing forest on the outskirts of town, feeding a group of "intimates" who visit only to mock them. And the loneliest member of the Marxist-Maoist Party of India falls in love with the one young woman, in the poorest part of town, whom he cannot afford to wed. Between the Assassinations showcases the most beloved aspects of Adiga's writing to brilliant effect: the class struggle rendered personal; the fury of the underdog and the fire of the iconoclast; and the prodigiously ambitious narrative talent that has earned Adiga acclaim around the world and comparisons to Gogol, Ellison, Kipling, and Palahniuk. In the words of The Guardian (London), "Between the Assassinations shows that Adiga...is one of the most important voices to emerge from India in recent years." A blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, Between the Assassinations, with all the humor, sympathy, and unflinching candor of The White Tiger, enlarges our understanding of the world we live in today."@en
  • "In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements."@en
  • "In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements."

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  • "Short stories"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Social Issues"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Powieść indyjska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Culture & diversity"
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Anthologie"
  • "Powieść indyjska w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "History"@he
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Large type books"

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  • "An sha xiao ying"
  • "Zwischen den Attentaten Geschichten aus einer Stadt ; Roman"
  • "两次暗杀之间 / Between the assassinations / Aravind Adiga"
  • "Between the assasinations"
  • "Between the assasinations"@en
  • "Liang ci an sha zhi jian / Between the assassinations / Aravind Adiga"
  • "暗殺效應"
  • "Between the Assassinations"
  • "Between the Assassinations"@en
  • "Zwischen den Attentaten Geschichten aus einer Stadt"
  • "两次暗杀之间"
  • "Liang ci an sha zhi jian"
  • "Między zabójstwami"
  • "Między zabójstwami"@pl
  • "От убийства до убийства"
  • "Zwischen den Attentaten Lesung"
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  • "El faro de los libros"
  • "בין הרציחות"
  • "Les ombres de Kittur"
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  • "Fra due omicidi"
  • "Ben ha-retsiḥot"
  • "Ot ubiĭstva do ubiĭstva"
  • "Zwischen den Attentaten : geschichten aus einer Stadt"
  • "Tussen de aanslagen"
  • "Between the assassinations"
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