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Amnesty
Aravind Adiga · 2020 · 272 pages
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A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder--and thereby risk deportation.
Danny--formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam--is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life.
But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has been murdered. The deed was done with a knife, at a creek he’d been to with her before; and a jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another of his clients--a doctor with whom Danny knows the woman was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward with his knowledge about the crime and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of this day, evaluating the weight of his past, his dreams for the future, and the unpredictable, often absurd reality of living invisibly and undocumented, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights still has responsibilities.
Propulsive, insightful, and full of Aravind Adiga’s signature wit and magic,
Amnesty is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.
About the Author
Aravind Adiga is the author of Selection Day, the Booker Prize-winning novel The White Tiger, and the story collection Between the Assassinations. He was born in India and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. He is a former correspondent for Time magazine, and his work has also appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, London Sunday Times, and the Financial Times, among other publications.
A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder--and thereby risk deportation.
Danny--formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam--is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life.
But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has been murdered. The deed was done with a knife, at a creek he’d been to with her before; and a jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another of his clients--a doctor with whom Danny knows the woman was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward with his knowledge about the crime and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of this day, evaluating the weight of his past, his dreams for the future, and the unpredictable, often absurd reality of living invisibly and undocumented, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights still has responsibilities.
Propulsive, insightful, and full of Aravind Adiga’s signature wit and magic,
Amnesty is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.
About the Author
Aravind Adiga is the author of Selection Day, the Booker Prize-winning novel The White Tiger, and the story collection Between the Assassinations. He was born in India and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. He is a former correspondent for Time magazine, and his work has also appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, London Sunday Times, and the Financial Times, among other publications.
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Priyanka Chopra
“He’s so clever in his writing, and he’s humorous and sarcastic and dark, but at the same time has a very fast-paced sense of storytelling. This book makes you think about refugees around the world, their lives and their choices. The choices they have to make and the ones that are made for them.”↗