暗殺效應

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一九八四－一九九一年，短短七年之內，兩任印度總理先後遭暗殺身亡，一連串無法阻擋的事件陸續發生：靠偷竊維生的穆斯林男孩，竟成了恐怖分子的眼中寶；因為種姓歧視，憤而引爆土製炸彈的中學生；以及一個經常逼迫女兒從事許多骯髒事的癮君子……

儼然一場人性悲劇！

☆曼布克獎得主，《白老虎》暢銷書作者另一巨作。

☆著作權已售：美國、法國、德國、荷蘭、印度、義大利、挪威、波蘭、葡萄牙、塞爾維亞。

暗殺年代的化學反應，

中和了邪惡的黑色幽默，以及溫和慈愛的人性！

吉塔市，猶如生意盎然的印度社會縮影，居民繁不勝數，並充斥著各式各樣的發聲：從中年共產主義者，到伊斯蘭恐怖分子；從淡米爾建築工人的幼子，到享有特權的孤僻男學生；從一名滿懷理想的新聞工作者，到上流人士的女傭……

本書呈現暗殺年代印度人的生活──在英迪拉．甘地，與她的兒子拉吉夫．甘地，遭遇暗殺的那個時間點，所引發的一連串宗教衝突、種族歧視、貧富對立、道德崩壞，乃至政治動盪、社會不安，儼然一場人性悲劇！

英文版

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.

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