{"product_id":"2940170738793","title":"Between the Assassinations: A Novel in Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 -- a powerful and striking new collection\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in \u003ci\u003eBetween the Assassinations\u003c\/i\u003e are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 privileged schoolboy sets off an explosive in a Jesuit-school classroom in protest against casteism. 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, \u003ci\u003eBetween the Assassinations\u003c\/i\u003e, with all the humor, sympathy, and unflinching candor of \u003ci\u003eThe White Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e, showcases the most beloved aspects of Aravind Adiga's writing to brilliant effect and enlarges our understanding of the world we live in today.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100725526768,"sku":"2940170738793","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170738793_p0.jpg?v=1763824571","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170738793","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}