Nakul Krishna
Slave Revolt
Selection Day
By Aravind Adiga
Picador 330pp £16.99 order from our bookshop
Three novels and a collection of short stories on, it is beginning to be clear that Aravind Adiga has claimed a piece of literary terrain for his own and devised a style to go with it. That terrain is urban India; his characters are the working and lower-middle classes – on the make, fired by ressentiment and far from idle. The ancestral village is for many of them a living memory. Adiga’s city, temptress and abuser, maintains a permanent assault on the individual’s integrity.
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