Amnesty (häftad, eng)
<p><b>From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of <i>The White Tiger, </i>Aravind Adiga, comes the story of...
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<p><b>From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of <i>The White Tiger, </i>Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime and must face an impossible moral dilemma.</b><br><br><b>'Alive with empathy, indignation and the sharp satiric reportage at which Aravind Adiga excels, this novel grippingly extends his concern for deprivation and injustice.' - <i>Sunday Times</i> 'Books of the Year'</b><br><br><b>Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award</b><br><br>Danny – formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam – is an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant.
Denied refugee status, working as a cleaner and living out of a grocery storeroom in Sydney, for four years he has been trying to create a new identity for himself, finally coming as close as he ever has to living a normal life.<br><br>One morning, Danny learns that his client Radha Thomas has been murdered.
A jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another client, a doctor with whom Radha was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward as a witness and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of a single ordinary, yet extraordinary day, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights nevertheless has responsibilities .
. .<br><br><b>Suspenseful, propulsive, and full of Aravind Adiga’s signature wit and magic, <i>Amnesty </i>is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.</b><br><br><b>'[Adiga] is a startlingly fine observer .
. . You come to this novel for its author's authority, wit and feeling on the subject of immigrants' lives.' - <i>New York Times</i></b></p>
Denied refugee status, working as a cleaner and living out of a grocery storeroom in Sydney, for four years he has been trying to create a new identity for himself, finally coming as close as he ever has to living a normal life.<br><br>One morning, Danny learns that his client Radha Thomas has been murdered.
A jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another client, a doctor with whom Radha was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward as a witness and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of a single ordinary, yet extraordinary day, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights nevertheless has responsibilities .
. .<br><br><b>Suspenseful, propulsive, and full of Aravind Adiga’s signature wit and magic, <i>Amnesty </i>is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.</b><br><br><b>'[Adiga] is a startlingly fine observer .
. . You come to this novel for its author's authority, wit and feeling on the subject of immigrants' lives.' - <i>New York Times</i></b></p>
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 272 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Pan Macmillan |
Utgivningsdatum | 2021-01-21 |
ISBN | 9781509879052 |
Böcker
- Format Pocket
- Antal sidor 352
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2021-01-21
- Förlag Pan Macmillan
- ISBN 9781509879052
Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Pocket
- Antal sidor 352
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2021-01-21
- Förlag Pan Macmillan
- ISBN 9781509879052