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Last man in tower : a novel

Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire. When Shah offers a generous buyout to a group of neighbors in a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building, they can't believe their good fortune. Except, that is, for Masterji, a retired schoolteacher who refuses to abandon the building he has long called home. As the demolition deadline looms, desires mount; neghbors become enemies, and acquaintances turn into conspirators who risk losing their humanity to score their payday...--back cover.

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  • "Last man in tower"@pl
  • "Last man in tower"@it

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  • "Eine Geschichte um Geld und Macht, Luxus und Entbehrung, ein breites Gemälde der Menschen in Bombay und nicht zuletzt das Porträt einer brodelnden Stadt - "Der letzte Mann im Turm" wirft einen tiefen Blick in die Herzen und Köpfe der Bewohner einer Mega-City - einfache Menschen, die an einem Ort ohne Grenzen an ihre Grenzen getrieben werden. Wen man in Bombay auch nach der "Vishram Society" fragen würde - Turm A der "Vishram Cooperative Wohnungsbaugesellschaft" -, jeder würde sagen, dass diese Wohnanlage in der Nähe des Flughafens und am Rande von Slums dennoch eine gute Adresse ist. Aber nicht nur Bombay hat sich in den letzten fünfzig Jahren verändert - und heisst jetzt Mumbai -, auch der Immobilienmarkt - überall in Mumbai wird abgerissen, Neues gebaut und viel frisches Geld ist im Umlauf. Als der Immobilientycoon Dharmen Shah den Bewohnern der Vishram Society das Angebot macht, sie rauszukaufen, damit er einen Luxusapartment-Komplex errichten kann, ist sein Angebot mehr als grosszügig. Aber nicht jeder ist bereit, auszuziehen und dafür viel Geld mitzunehmen, das Angebot gilt jedoch nur, wenn alle zustimmen! Die Anspannung steigt unter den Bewohnern, und einer, der pensionierte Lehrer Masterji, einst am meisten respektiert, ist nun das Hindernis für diesen Deal. Shah ist ein gefährlicher Gegner, aber auch alte Freunde können zu Feinden werden ... Aravind Adiga, geboren 1974 in Madras, wuchs zeitweise 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 Booker Prize und erschien in fast 40 Ländern."
  • "A riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city's most elite addresses. He offers a generous buyout to the residents of Vishram Society's Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building. But one resident-- Masterji-- refuses to abandon the building he has long called home."
  • "Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire. When Shah offers a generous buyout to a group of neighbors in a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building, they can't believe their good fortune. Except, that is, for Masterji, a retired schoolteacher who refuses to abandon the building he has long called home. As the demolition deadline looms, desires mount; neghbors become enemies, and acquaintances turn into conspirators who risk losing their humanity to score their payday...--back cover."@en
  • "Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it is unimpeachably pucca. Despite its location close to the airport, under the flight path of 747s and bordered by slums, it has been pucca for some fifty years. But Bombay has changed in half a century - not least its name - and the world in which Tower A was first built is giving way to a new city; a Mumbai of development and new money; of wealthy Indians returning with fortunes made abroad. When real estate developer Dharmen Shah offers to buy out the residents of V."@en
  • "Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize?winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai. ? At the heart of this novel are two equally compelling men, poised for a showdown. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city?s most elite addresses. Larger-than-life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in a retired schoolteacher called Masterji. Shah offers Masterji and his neighbors?the residents of Vishram Society?s Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building on whose site Shah?s luxury high-rise would be built?a generous buyout. They can?t believe their good fortune. Except, that is, for Masterji, who refuses to abandon the building he has long called home. As the demolition deadline looms, desires mount; neighbors become enemies, and acquaintances turn into conspirators who risk losing their humanity to score their payday. ? Here is a richly told, suspense-fueled story of ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none: the new India as only Aravind Adiga could explore?and expose?it. Vivid, visceral, told with both humor and poignancy, Last Man in Tower is his most stunning work yet.From the Hardcover edition."@en
  • "Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building - and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But Bombay has changed in half a century - not least its name - and the world in which Tower A was first built is giving way to a new city..."
  • "Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building - and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But Bombay has changed in half a century - not least its name - and the world in which Tower A was first built is giving way to a new city..."@en
  • "A riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city's most elite addresses. He offers a generous buyout to the residents of Vishram Society's Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building. But one resident-- Masterji-- refuses to abandon the building he has long called home."
  • "Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire, and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of Mumbai's most elite addresses. When Shah offers a generous buyout to the residents of a crumbling apartment building on whose site this luxury high-rise would be built, they can't believe their good fortune. All but one: a retired schoolteacher called Masterji, who refuses to abandon his home."
  • "Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city's most elite addresses. He offers a generous buyout to the residents of Vishram Society's Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building. But one resident--Masterji--refuses to abandon the building he has long called home."
  • "Real estate developer Dharmen Shah hopes to seal his dynasty with one of Shanghai's most elite buildings, but when he meets his match in retired schoolteacher Masterji, a resident of a once respectable apartment building Dharmen needs to buy in order to build his skyscraper, he is pushed to the limit as Masterji's refusal to move threatens to destroy everything Dharmen has worked for."@en
  • "In Mumbai, real estate developer Dharmen Shah hopes to seal his legacy with a building named Shanghai to be located where the once respectable, but now crumbling Vishram Society's Tower A apartment building currently stands. All of the residents accept a generous buyout except for Masterji, a retired school teacher who refuses to abandon the building he has long called home. As the demolition deadline approaches, neighbours become enemies, and acquaintances turn into conspirators who want their payday.!"

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść indyjska w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "CD"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"@en
  • "Powieść indyjska"@pl
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"

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  • "Last man in tower : a novel"@en
  • "Letzter Mann im Turm Roman"
  • "Ostatni mieszkaniec"
  • "Ostatni mieszkaniec"@pl
  • "Letzter mann im turm : roman"
  • "Last man in tower"
  • "Last man in tower"@en
  • "Le dernier homme de la tour"
  • "De laatste man in de toren"
  • "塔裡的男人"
  • "L'ultimo uomo nella torre"
  • "L'ultimo uomo nella torre"@it
  • "Last Man in Tower"
  • "Last Man in Tower"@en
  • "Last man in tower a novel"
  • "Letzter Mann im Turm gekürzte Lesung"
  • "Ta li de nan ren"
  • "Last man in tower : a novel"

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