From the New York Times -bestselling winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 -- a powerful and striking new collection Welcome to Kittur, India. 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 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 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. 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 , showcases the most beloved aspects of Aravind Adiga's writing to brilliant effect and enlarges our understanding of the world we live in today. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

阿拉文德·阿迪加一九七四年齣生於印度海港城市馬德拉斯，後移居澳大利亞，求學於哥倫比亞大學與牛津大學。他在長篇小說處女作《白老虎》中，以一位印度班加羅爾的企業傢給中國總理溫傢寶寫信講述自己人生故事的形式，反映瞭當今印度經濟“奇跡”錶相下的真實麵貌，憑藉獨一無二的原創性獲二○○八年曼布剋奬。阿迪加曾任《時代周刊》駐印度通訊記者，並為《金融時報》、《獨立報》、《星期日泰晤士報》等英國媒體撰稿。現居孟買。